Donna D. Vitucci

Donna D. Vitucci lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio, helping raise funds for local nonprofits. Since 1990 her stories have appeared in dozens of print and online journals. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Front Porch Journal, Juked, Night Train, Ginosko, Insolent Rudder, Smokelong Quarterly, mourning silence, and Another Chicago Magazine. Abacus was written after walking the shore of Lake Michigan during a very special artists’ retreat this past September.

Ben Tanzer

Ben Tanzer is the author of the novels Lucky Man (Manx Media, 2007) and Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine (Orange Alert Press, 2008) and the short story collection Repetition Patterns (CCLaP, 2008). He also blogs at This Blog Will Change Your Life, which is the centerpiece of his vast, albeit faux, media empire, and edits This Zine Will Change Your Life, which you should totally submit to. Cool?

Charles Brooks III

Charles Clifford Brooks III is a poet and freelance writer living in Georgia USA. He was inducted into the National Creative Society his senior year at Shorter College where he also obtained a BS in History\Political Science with a minor in English Literature. Along with his creative endeavors, he also contributes articles to several magazines and a newspaper. He was recently brought on as Poetry Editor for Literary Magic Magazine. In August of 2008, Ghost Shadow Press picked up his first book of poetry “Whirling Metaphysics” to publish in 2009.

Aleathia Drehmer

Aleathia Drehmer is currently trying to hibernate for the winter, but not having much success. She is an active staff member for The Guild of the Outsider Writers. She lives with her darling daughter and crazy cat, Carrot, in rural Painted Post, NY. She has been lucky enough to be published in many online and print journals over the last few years. She is even luckier to have great friends and one damned patient boyfriend.

William D. Freeman

I graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 2006 with a BA in English
Literature. My poems have previously appeared in The Duke's Dispatch,
The Stylus and online in LitUp Mag. My freelance work has appeared on
linux.com. In addition to poetry, my interests include travel,
photography, blues and jazz guitar and free software advocacy and I
currently work for a web hosting company.

David Erlewine

David Erlewine has approximately 30 short stories and flashes published in numerous print and web lit journals, some of which can be viewed at

http://www.sunoasis.com/movingon.html, http://webdelsol.com/InPosse/erlewine15.htm, http://issuu.com/dlbarringer/docs/whathappenedtous

For a person generally (if mistakenly) viewed as happy, his fiction certainly would never be described that way. He often thinks about Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiment and other such happy things.

Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan writes short essays from his home in the Pacific Northwest. His writing has recently appeared in a number of webzines and magazines, including Bad Idea Magazine (UK), Eleventh Transmission (Canada), The Short Humour Site (UK), Backhand Stories, and The Externalist. Thomas is the author of Life In The Slow Lane, which recounts a hair-raising summer spent teaching driver’s education (available at lulu). Contact the author at tmpsull@hotmail.com.