Meet the Authors:
Jameson T. Caine - "The Gallery of Final Repose"
Jameson T. Caine drives a tanker truck by day and calls himself a writer by night, the latter fueled by a steady diet of soda and salty snacks. He has stories appearing in the Devil's Food anthology, Sand #5, Lurid Lit, The Monsters Next Door #8, 52 Stitches, Everyday Weirdness, Flashes in the Dark and Tweet the Meat. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two dogs, where he travels many a lonesome country road as part of his job. Visit him online at www.jamesontcaine.blogspot.com/.
Kyle A. Steele - "The Farm"
Kyle Steele lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, two dogs and two kids. Kyle's day jobs have included: Army Officer, suit salesman, door-to-door window salesman, production foreman and buyer. He writes at night. His tories have been published in The Blotter, Twisted Tongue & Sinister Tales.
Jessy Marie Roberts - "The Experiment"
Jessy Marie Roberts lives in a "haunted" house in Western Nebraska with her husband, Alva, and their two dogs, Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. Visit her online at jessymarieroberts.weebly.com.
Christopher Jacobsmeyer - "14"
Christopher Jacobsmeyer is a self-styled fantasy author dabbling in the realms of sci-fi and horror. His tolerant wife and headstrong daughters humor him as long as it suits their needs. If that weren't enough, a trio of cats keeps him in check with their whispered designs of conquest at night.
Aaron Polson - "Tommy of the Flood"
Aaron Polson currently lives and writes in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. To pay the bills, Aaron attempts to teach high school students the difference between irony and coincidence. You can visit him on the web at www.aaronpolson.com.
Stephen D. Rogers - "Hallowskreig"
Over five hundred of Stephen's stories and poems have appeared in more than two hundred publications. His website, www.stephendrogers.com, includes a list of new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information.
Anca L. Szilagyi - "Hail"
Anca L. Szilagyi's fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Western Humanities Review and Antagonish Review, among other publications. She has previously edited the journal Scrivener Creative Review and the webzine 55 Words. This fall she will begin at the MFA program at University of Washington-Seattle.
Alva J. Roberts - "The Plant"
Alva J. Roberts lives in Western Nebraska with his wife and two dogs. When he is not writing, he works as a librarian at the local library. Visit him online at alvaroberts.weebly.com.
Christopher Fulbright - "Death Depot"
Christohper Fulbright has been writing stories as long as he can remember, with about sixty publication credits to his name, including stories, novellas, a collection, and one novel. He lives in Texas with his wife and two children, and dwells on the web at www.christopherfullbright.com.
Jacob Henry Orloff - "Crop Circles"
Jacob Henry Orloff has been writing horror fiction throughout several centuries in various past lives. In his current incarnation, he has been writing for nearly three years and is currently attending school as an English major.
John Peters - "For Want of a Ghost"
John Peters' fiction has been published in the Stoker-nominated Horror Library Vol. 3, Dark Recesses, Down in the Cellar, and elsewhere. He recently was named nonfiction editor at Dark Recesses, and works fulltime as a newspaper editor. John lives in the mountains of Southwest Virginia with his wife and their five children. Visit him at johnpeters2.webs.com/.
Jessica A. Weiss - "Emily's Lake"
Jessica A. Weiss lives on the Southeasten Seaboard with her husband, children and various animals. When she isn't busy with them, she writes as much as she can. You can find her writing blog at The Writers Side of the Looking Glass (thewriterssideofthelookingglass.blogspot.com/).
K.M. Rees - "Control"
Originally from Colorado, K.M. Rees currently teaches high school English, Speech, and Drama in a rural Nebraska community. "Control" is her first publication.
Adrian Ludens - "Beneath Kent's Bed"
Adrian Ludens is a radio personality in the Black Hills of South Dakota. His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Morpheus Tales, ThugLit, Trail of Indiscretion, and many others. Visit him at www.myspace.com/adrianludens.
D. Nathan Hilliard - "Storm Chase"
D. Nathan Hilliard lives in Spring, Texas, with his veterinarian wife, two children, and two cats. He draws inspiration for a childhool living small Texas towns, accented by teen years spent in western New Mexico. He has experienced life through a diverse collection of jobs ranging from meter reading and being an assistant manager at a convenience store, to working at cotton gins, window factories, and uranium mines. After coming down with Charcot Marit Tooth (CMT) at the turn of the century, Mr. Hilliard now happily settles for tending house, raising his kids, and exploring the field of writing.
Amanda C. Davis - "Stills and Rushes"
Amanda C. Davis is a Pittsburgh engineer with a green thumb, a fondness for horror movies, and a habit of constantly gaining new hobbies. As a child, she spent a lot of time playing in the creek. She blogs at http://davisac1.livehournal.com.
Alison Seay - "A Hopeful Mother"
Alison Seay writes full-time as many different people. Once in a while she writes as herself. This is one of those instances. She can be reached at www.alisonseay.wordpress.com.
Rob Rosen - "Closer by the Second"
Rob Rosen, author of the novels "Sparkle" and "Divas Las Vegas", has had short stories featured in more than sixty anthologies, most notably: Short Attention Span Mysteries; Modern Witches, Wizards, and Magic; Southern Comfort; Hell's Hangman: Horror in the Old West; By the Chimney With Care; Our Shadows Speak; Strange Stories of Sand and Sea; Damned in Dixie: Southern Horror; Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic; Legends and Fables: A Fantasy Anthology; Twisted Fayrie Tales; Ruins Metropolis; Don't Turn the Lights On; Speculative Realms; Bloody October; Abaculus 2008; and Black Box. Please visit him at his website, www.therobrosen.com, or email him at robrosen@therobrosen.com
J. Troy Seate - "Alone"
Mr. Seate has written everything from humor to the macabre. His short stories appear in several magazines, anthologies and webzines. His two one-author anthologies, Descent into Darkness and From the Depths of Darkness, and his two suspense thrillers, Chosen, and its sequel, Shanghai is Crying are available through amazon.com and most bookstores. Troy lives in Golden, Colorado. Visit him on his website at www.geocities.com/jtroyseate.
Bradd Parton - "The One That Didn't Get Away"
An addition to self-publishing his own comic series online and in print--3 issues to date--Bradd Parton's prose work was recently accepted for publication in an upcoming anthology edited by Scott Nicholson entitled Little Shivers.
Jim Ehmann - "Just Comes Natural"
Jim Ehmann is a Kentucky native living in Portland, Oregon. He is a medical research grant administrator. In addition to writing fiction, he enjoys sixty-mile bike rides, Texas Hold'em poker, Thai cooking, and the Portland Trailblazers of the National Basketball Association. He strongly prefers to write after midnight, much to the dismay of his wife and two black cats.
Michelle Bredeson - "Lone September Night"
Michelle Bredeson grew up in a small town in South Dakota and frequented her grandparent' farm often as a child. At eighteen she moved to North Dakota and spent most of her adult life there. Although she has lived in the Twin Cities the past two years, she will contend that the scariest place imaginable is a lone country road, in the middle of the night, surrounded by dark, with only a sliver of mmoon to light heer path. Follow her blog at evidentlyandofcourse.blogspot.com.
Jack Burton - "The Cabin"
Jack Burton resides in Arizona where he practices his passion for teaching, heavy metal, and of course, horror. His short story "The Gambler" can be found in the horror anthology Bonded by Blood II, available in January 2010.
Lisa Gurney - "Buried Amidst the Butter Beans: An A-Z Story of Revenge"
In 2007, Lisa Gurney quit her Fortune 500 job to pursue her dream of writing. Since then, her fiction and essays have been published both in print and online in the United States and Canada. She is the recipient of the 2007 National PRNDI Award for Commentary for her essay "A Witness to Violence." Lisa resides in Worcester, MA to and welcomes comments at lisajgurney@gmail.com.
Jerry Enni - "On a Lonely Stretch of Road"
Jerry Enni lives in a small house in the center of the San Joaquin Valley with his beautiful family. By day he makes signs, and by night he writes stories; one of which you'll find in this anthology [The Middle of Nowhere]. He hopes you enjoy reading it as much as he enjoyed writing it.
Christin Haws - "Hillbilly Hunt"
Christin Haws is a writer without a day job living in a small town in the middle of a cornfield. It's highly specialized work that you can read about on her blog at kikiwrites.livejournal.com.
Rex E. Morrison - "Midnight"
Rex Morrison was born and raised in Valentine, Nebraska. While he has lived in a variety of locales, such as Idaho, Florida, and Wisconsin, he currently resides in Mitchell, Nebraska and is employed during the school year as an English instructor. Summers are filled with camping, canoeing the Niobrara, connecting with friends, and finding an adventure or two locked away in the pages of a good book.
Lucas Pederson - "Push"
Lucas is the author of over twelve short stories in various anthologies and e-zines, including his most recent in: Bards and Sages Quarterly, Blackness Within Anthology (edited by Gill Ainsworth of Apex Magazine), Mausoleum Memoirs Anthology (House of Horror), and Tooth Decay Anthology (Sonar4). He lives humbly in northeasy Iowa with his wife and their three daughters.
Jameson T. Caine drives a tanker truck by day and calls himself a writer by night, the latter fueled by a steady diet of soda and salty snacks. He has stories appearing in the Devil's Food anthology, Sand #5, Lurid Lit, The Monsters Next Door #8, 52 Stitches, Everyday Weirdness, Flashes in the Dark and Tweet the Meat. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two dogs, where he travels many a lonesome country road as part of his job. Visit him online at www.jamesontcaine.blogspot.com/.
Kyle A. Steele - "The Farm"
Kyle Steele lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, two dogs and two kids. Kyle's day jobs have included: Army Officer, suit salesman, door-to-door window salesman, production foreman and buyer. He writes at night. His tories have been published in The Blotter, Twisted Tongue & Sinister Tales.
Jessy Marie Roberts - "The Experiment"
Jessy Marie Roberts lives in a "haunted" house in Western Nebraska with her husband, Alva, and their two dogs, Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. Visit her online at jessymarieroberts.weebly.com.
Christopher Jacobsmeyer - "14"
Christopher Jacobsmeyer is a self-styled fantasy author dabbling in the realms of sci-fi and horror. His tolerant wife and headstrong daughters humor him as long as it suits their needs. If that weren't enough, a trio of cats keeps him in check with their whispered designs of conquest at night.
Aaron Polson - "Tommy of the Flood"
Aaron Polson currently lives and writes in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. To pay the bills, Aaron attempts to teach high school students the difference between irony and coincidence. You can visit him on the web at www.aaronpolson.com.
Stephen D. Rogers - "Hallowskreig"
Over five hundred of Stephen's stories and poems have appeared in more than two hundred publications. His website, www.stephendrogers.com, includes a list of new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information.
Anca L. Szilagyi - "Hail"
Anca L. Szilagyi's fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Western Humanities Review and Antagonish Review, among other publications. She has previously edited the journal Scrivener Creative Review and the webzine 55 Words. This fall she will begin at the MFA program at University of Washington-Seattle.
Alva J. Roberts - "The Plant"
Alva J. Roberts lives in Western Nebraska with his wife and two dogs. When he is not writing, he works as a librarian at the local library. Visit him online at alvaroberts.weebly.com.
Christopher Fulbright - "Death Depot"
Christohper Fulbright has been writing stories as long as he can remember, with about sixty publication credits to his name, including stories, novellas, a collection, and one novel. He lives in Texas with his wife and two children, and dwells on the web at www.christopherfullbright.com.
Jacob Henry Orloff - "Crop Circles"
Jacob Henry Orloff has been writing horror fiction throughout several centuries in various past lives. In his current incarnation, he has been writing for nearly three years and is currently attending school as an English major.
John Peters - "For Want of a Ghost"
John Peters' fiction has been published in the Stoker-nominated Horror Library Vol. 3, Dark Recesses, Down in the Cellar, and elsewhere. He recently was named nonfiction editor at Dark Recesses, and works fulltime as a newspaper editor. John lives in the mountains of Southwest Virginia with his wife and their five children. Visit him at johnpeters2.webs.com/.
Jessica A. Weiss - "Emily's Lake"
Jessica A. Weiss lives on the Southeasten Seaboard with her husband, children and various animals. When she isn't busy with them, she writes as much as she can. You can find her writing blog at The Writers Side of the Looking Glass (thewriterssideofthelookingglass.blogspot.com/).
K.M. Rees - "Control"
Originally from Colorado, K.M. Rees currently teaches high school English, Speech, and Drama in a rural Nebraska community. "Control" is her first publication.
Adrian Ludens - "Beneath Kent's Bed"
Adrian Ludens is a radio personality in the Black Hills of South Dakota. His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Morpheus Tales, ThugLit, Trail of Indiscretion, and many others. Visit him at www.myspace.com/adrianludens.
D. Nathan Hilliard - "Storm Chase"
D. Nathan Hilliard lives in Spring, Texas, with his veterinarian wife, two children, and two cats. He draws inspiration for a childhool living small Texas towns, accented by teen years spent in western New Mexico. He has experienced life through a diverse collection of jobs ranging from meter reading and being an assistant manager at a convenience store, to working at cotton gins, window factories, and uranium mines. After coming down with Charcot Marit Tooth (CMT) at the turn of the century, Mr. Hilliard now happily settles for tending house, raising his kids, and exploring the field of writing.
Amanda C. Davis - "Stills and Rushes"
Amanda C. Davis is a Pittsburgh engineer with a green thumb, a fondness for horror movies, and a habit of constantly gaining new hobbies. As a child, she spent a lot of time playing in the creek. She blogs at http://davisac1.livehournal.com.
Alison Seay - "A Hopeful Mother"
Alison Seay writes full-time as many different people. Once in a while she writes as herself. This is one of those instances. She can be reached at www.alisonseay.wordpress.com.
Rob Rosen - "Closer by the Second"
Rob Rosen, author of the novels "Sparkle" and "Divas Las Vegas", has had short stories featured in more than sixty anthologies, most notably: Short Attention Span Mysteries; Modern Witches, Wizards, and Magic; Southern Comfort; Hell's Hangman: Horror in the Old West; By the Chimney With Care; Our Shadows Speak; Strange Stories of Sand and Sea; Damned in Dixie: Southern Horror; Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic; Legends and Fables: A Fantasy Anthology; Twisted Fayrie Tales; Ruins Metropolis; Don't Turn the Lights On; Speculative Realms; Bloody October; Abaculus 2008; and Black Box. Please visit him at his website, www.therobrosen.com, or email him at robrosen@therobrosen.com
J. Troy Seate - "Alone"
Mr. Seate has written everything from humor to the macabre. His short stories appear in several magazines, anthologies and webzines. His two one-author anthologies, Descent into Darkness and From the Depths of Darkness, and his two suspense thrillers, Chosen, and its sequel, Shanghai is Crying are available through amazon.com and most bookstores. Troy lives in Golden, Colorado. Visit him on his website at www.geocities.com/jtroyseate.
Bradd Parton - "The One That Didn't Get Away"
An addition to self-publishing his own comic series online and in print--3 issues to date--Bradd Parton's prose work was recently accepted for publication in an upcoming anthology edited by Scott Nicholson entitled Little Shivers.
Jim Ehmann - "Just Comes Natural"
Jim Ehmann is a Kentucky native living in Portland, Oregon. He is a medical research grant administrator. In addition to writing fiction, he enjoys sixty-mile bike rides, Texas Hold'em poker, Thai cooking, and the Portland Trailblazers of the National Basketball Association. He strongly prefers to write after midnight, much to the dismay of his wife and two black cats.
Michelle Bredeson - "Lone September Night"
Michelle Bredeson grew up in a small town in South Dakota and frequented her grandparent' farm often as a child. At eighteen she moved to North Dakota and spent most of her adult life there. Although she has lived in the Twin Cities the past two years, she will contend that the scariest place imaginable is a lone country road, in the middle of the night, surrounded by dark, with only a sliver of mmoon to light heer path. Follow her blog at evidentlyandofcourse.blogspot.com.
Jack Burton - "The Cabin"
Jack Burton resides in Arizona where he practices his passion for teaching, heavy metal, and of course, horror. His short story "The Gambler" can be found in the horror anthology Bonded by Blood II, available in January 2010.
Lisa Gurney - "Buried Amidst the Butter Beans: An A-Z Story of Revenge"
In 2007, Lisa Gurney quit her Fortune 500 job to pursue her dream of writing. Since then, her fiction and essays have been published both in print and online in the United States and Canada. She is the recipient of the 2007 National PRNDI Award for Commentary for her essay "A Witness to Violence." Lisa resides in Worcester, MA to and welcomes comments at lisajgurney@gmail.com.
Jerry Enni - "On a Lonely Stretch of Road"
Jerry Enni lives in a small house in the center of the San Joaquin Valley with his beautiful family. By day he makes signs, and by night he writes stories; one of which you'll find in this anthology [The Middle of Nowhere]. He hopes you enjoy reading it as much as he enjoyed writing it.
Christin Haws - "Hillbilly Hunt"
Christin Haws is a writer without a day job living in a small town in the middle of a cornfield. It's highly specialized work that you can read about on her blog at kikiwrites.livejournal.com.
Rex E. Morrison - "Midnight"
Rex Morrison was born and raised in Valentine, Nebraska. While he has lived in a variety of locales, such as Idaho, Florida, and Wisconsin, he currently resides in Mitchell, Nebraska and is employed during the school year as an English instructor. Summers are filled with camping, canoeing the Niobrara, connecting with friends, and finding an adventure or two locked away in the pages of a good book.
Lucas Pederson - "Push"
Lucas is the author of over twelve short stories in various anthologies and e-zines, including his most recent in: Bards and Sages Quarterly, Blackness Within Anthology (edited by Gill Ainsworth of Apex Magazine), Mausoleum Memoirs Anthology (House of Horror), and Tooth Decay Anthology (Sonar4). He lives humbly in northeasy Iowa with his wife and their three daughters.