Wily Writers for Wily Readers – Fiction E-zine

Mark Tullius is a stay-at-home dad who’s just come to the sad realization that three-hour naps are a thing of the past. His favorite show is anything besides Sesame Street, and he’s finding it increasingly difficult not to apologize every time he harms one of his characters. His short fiction has appeared in over two [...]

Matt Cowens is a writer and high school English and Media Studies teacher living on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand. He has taught English in Japan, designed and produced card games, written and illustrated comics and is an enthusiastic amateur video maker. Read Matt’s flash fiction story “The Tunnel.” Visit Matt’s writing blog.

Fred Warren works as a government contractor in eastern Kansas, where he lives with his wife and three children. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including Allegory, Bards & Sages Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, Every Day Fiction, and Mindflights, and his first novel, The Muse, debuted in November 2009. Read [...]

Sasha Janel McBrayer is a civilian contractor for the Army. She writes a popular A&E column for Frontline, the Fort Stewart installation newspaper. She enjoys graphic design and super heroes. Her fantasy yarn, THE PHOENIX CROSSROADS, and her sci fi short, SOULLESS, were both published by Silverthought in 2009. Read her flash fiction story “Grand-Monster.” [...]

Three-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, Bruce Boston is the author of forty-five books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass Rain. In addition to the Stoker Award, he has received a Pushcart Prize for Fiction, the Asimov’s Readers Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Grand Master Award of the [...]

Craig D.B. Patton is a member of New England Horror Writers. His stories have appeared in Shroud Magazine, Aeon Speculative Fiction, Book of Dead Things (Twilight Tales), Hell in the Heartland (Annihilation Press), and other markets. He also has poems forthcoming in A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock (Dark Scribe Press) and The [...]

Matthue Roth is a slam poet and the author, most recently, of Losers (Scholastic/PUSH), a novel about Russian immigrant geeks who try to take over the world. He co-produces a weekly animated adaptation of the Torah at G-dcast.com, and he keeps a secret diary at www.matthue.com. Read his story “Hailing Frequency.” Visit his website.

When not writing, Shelly attempts to go to bed at a decent hour, failing miserably on most days. Read her story “Outsourced.” For more information about her, visit her website.

Theodore V. Thompson is a writer, beer brewer, and casual board-game player. He lives in Elko, Nevada, with his wife and two children. In 2009, he was first published in Wayfinder #1 for his short story “Pathfinders of Qadira.” He continues to write monthly installments to “Pathfinders of Qadira” on the website PathfinderChronicler.Net. Theodore was [...]