flashquake - Summer 2002

flashquake
Summer 2002
Contributors

David Atkinson has been writing poetry for about seven years. He has been published both in the UK & USA and was included in Poetry Now's Top 100 poets of 1999. More recently, David was the winner of the Portstewart Red Sails Festival Poetry Competition 2000, and 2nd place in the Bridget Winter Poetry Competition 2001.

Stephen Ausherman has exhibited photos and paintings in galleries in New Mexico, New York and North Carolina. His essays ran in Nerve.com, The Korea Times, and elsewhere. His fiction received awards from the North Carolina Writers' Network and others. His first novel was nominated for the 2001 Tennessee Book Award.

Alan C. Baird is the Harvard Book Prize winner who recently coauthored 9TimeZones.com, a hardback/softcover screenwriting volume. He lives just a stone's throw away from Hollywood... which is fine and dandy, until the stones are thrown back.

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Scott Emerson Bull has been weaving his weird tales for seven years now, scribbling them down in a Civil War era stone cottage nestled in rural Carroll County, Maryland. He's a member of the Baltimore Washington Chapter of the Horror Writer's Association and his first published story, "Champion of Lost Causes," (Terminal Fright, Winter '95) received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Since then he has appeared in issues of Darkness Rising, Outer Darkness, redsine.com, horrorfind.com, Gathering Darkness, and White Knuckles.

Michelle Cameron's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several electronic and print publications, including the e-zines Mentress Moon; Comrades; 2River View; Samsara Quarterly; Stirring; Snakeskin; The Paumanok Review; and The Dakota House Journal. She was recently guest editor for Stirring. Her print magazine and anthology credits include poetry in LIPS; Uno; Midnight Mind; Martha’s Vineyard: A Collection; and The Paterson Literary Review. Michelle, a founding member of No Retreat: a women's poetry collective, lives in New Jersey with her husband and two sons. More of Michelle's poetry can be seen at her web site: http://www.noretreat.org/mec/.

Sudarshan Deshmukh is a sculptor, painter, and mosiac artist living in Toronto, Canada. She includes experiences from her past and her travels in the art she creates today. Her art begins from within: instead of concentrating on the outcome of her creative work, Sudarshan begins by working with her inner connection to the materials. Thus, the process of creating a piece often becomes the message of the piece.

L. E. Erickson is a thirty-something stay-at-home mother of two boys. Besides fantasy, horror, and pretty much any other kind of book she can lay her hands on, she's interested in children's literature and illustration, classic rock, and online RPG's. More information and stories can be found at http://l_e_erickson.tripod.com/.

Kristin K. Fouquet is a lifelong resident of New Orleans. Although she has enjoyed the companionship of many felines, she has been committed to her husband, Errol, and her two cats, Minnesota Spats and Mata Hari, since 1996.

Lyssa Friedman is a freelance writer living in Mill Valley, California and a soon-to-be first-time mother of a child from Vietnam.

John Horváth, Jr. is a South Side Chicagoan, educated in the American South (Vanderbilt, Florida State Univ. -PhD). John has been a steel mill mechanic, soldier, street poet, and professor of literature and criticism. His most recent books include Illiana Region Poems: Harboring the Enemy (from Zebooks) and CONUS: the First Tour Chapbook, new and collected poetry of war . Disabled in a parachute accident, Horváth edits PoetryRepairShop - Contemporary International Poetry (since 1997).

A. Leigh Jones is the Development Assistant at Strange Horizons, a weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction. She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband Greg, and his cat, a shy hunter called Bella.

Patricia Kozma has been writing poetry and short stories for 40 years. In 1979, she spent six months struggling to become a freelance writer. Then, instead, she established a business, now called Manhattan Manuscripts, to work with writers in the preparation of novels, thinking that was the next best thing to being a writer herself. In the early years, she published several nonfiction articles and poems in newspapers and magazines in Florida where she then lived and travelled in a motorhome with her husband, two kids, and dog and cat. Recently, she has reemerged somewhat from her entrepreneuring obligations and has published a poem, "The Rape of Armageddon" (April 2002) and a short story, "Breakfast in New York and Other Rituals" (May 2002) in the e-zine at writerscabaret.com. Patricia lives and works and writes in Manhattan.

Wenonah Lyon is an anthropologist, an American ex-pat currently (and probably permanently) living in Canterbury, Kent.

Doug MacBean is a graduate of The Ontario College of Art, and also has earned diplomas or degrees in commercial Art, Social Science, Photography and Digital Media. He owns an Art Studio and does consulting work as well as teaching adult education art classes.

Jennifer Maslowski is an art appraiser and freelance writer living in New York City. Previous stories have appeared in Our Town, Good Use, and Fictionaddiction. The only thing she hates writing are bios of herself.

D. Jeanette McSherry has won numerous awards for her poetry, manuscripts and short stories. Her prose poetry and fiction have been published in Suddenly I, II, III and IV. An active member of The Woodlands Writers Guild, Jeanette has served as either conference chairperson, co-chair or competition chair for the last five years. She resides in Spring, Texas.

Kenneth Powell is in management with Osco Drug. He is currently at work on his second novel. His short story, "buried in the sand" appeared in the Fall, 2000 issue of The Threshold, by Crossover Press.

John Rector's fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications including Devil Blossoms, The 13th Warrior Review, Prose Ax, Wilmington Blues, Gnome, and The 42nd Parallel, where he won the Porterhouse Prize for best fiction.

Ric Reichert lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely wife and her two cats. He has been published, primarily humor pieces. For the past several years, he has been writing short stories, honing the craft of fiction, with the goal of writing a novel. This is his first play, the process made easier because it had to be short.

Wayne Scheer retired after twenty-five years of teaching college writing and literature to follow his own advice and write. His story, "Father and Son," was selected as an Editor's Pick in the spring issue of flashquake, and other recent stories have appeared in Prose Ax, Seven Seas Magazine, Bulk Head, and Bovine Free Wyoming. He lives in Atlanta with his wife. Wayne can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.

Marcia Sacks is a writer, teacher, and astrologer in Chicago's northwest suburbs. Her articles on astrology and spiritual living have been published in The Mountain Astrologer and The Monthly Aspectarian magazines. She publishes two monthly newsletters, "Astrology Update" and "The Inward Adventure," on her website www.MarciaSacks.com.

Liana M. Scott's first novel is in the process of edit and rewrite. She was a finalist in selections for Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul and recently had an article published in a local newspaper.

Bud Simpson is a civil trial attorney living in Atlanta, Geogia. He was graduated cum laude from Stetson University with a degree in history. He spent six years in the U. S. Navy as an aircraft carrier pilot. Mr. Simpson obtained a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. While practicing law, he served as an adjunct professor at Emory University Law School, and he is listed in the Woodward/White, Inc. publication, The Best Lawyers in America.

Karin Sköld trained privately with a portrait-artist and illustrator and has studied computer graphic design. Latest exhibitions: Oxelösund Sweden-98; Gallery Stallet, Sweden.2000; Open show at IOGT-2000; Gallery Zakris-2001; Oxelösund March-2001; Gallery Stallet, June-2001; and London, U. K. 2001.

Henry Slesar has published more than 450 short stories in publications ranging from Playboy to Reader's Digest. He has written some 100 teleplays, has three feature credits, has been headwriter on three daytime serials, has won two Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America, an Emmy from NATAS, and has had 26 productions of six stage plays.

C. E. Staples lives and works in Massachusetts. Her previous works include "The Blue Butterfly," and "Waiting Until Morning," which will be published in the Winter 2002 issue of African Voices.

Tom Steckert is completing a bachelor's degree in English from Otterbein College to go with his degree in computer science from Michigan State University. His fiction has appeared in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine and the East Central Colleges Literary Anthology. "May I Help You" is his first published play. Tom lives in New Albany, Ohio with his wife, Beverly.

Alexa Stevenson is a Creative Nonfiction writer based in the Twin Cities. She is currently involved in the start-up of Ache Magazine, a literary and visual arts journal.

Dominick Talvacchio was born and raised in South Philadelphia, studied English and mathematics at Davidson College in Davidson, NC, and is currently finishing an interdisciplinary M.A. in the humanities at the University of Chicago.

Rick Whitaker graduated from West Point in 1969. After a tour in Vietnam in 1970-71, he left the Army as a Captain in 1975. Receiving an MBA from Harvard, he then pursued a career in international strategy consulting, and renewable energy development. He currently resides in Houston, TX.

James D. Wright is a clinical psychologist who writes short fiction every chance he gets. He has previously been published in StoryBytes and Dark Moon Rising.