Short-Story.Me!

A J is an undergraduate student in Cardiff University, United Kingdom. He has previously been published in Twisted Tongue, The Monsters Next Door and Sonar4 ezine. He also has a part-time job in a book store. Favourite authors are Daphne Du Maurier, Stephen King, Agatha Christie and Martin Amis. A J enjoys writing in a variety of different genres because he never gets bored.

Aaron J. French is a college student who’s been writing speculative fiction for the last six years. His work has appeared in the inaugural issue of Abandoned Towers Magazine (as well as various stories on their website), Wanderings Magazine, the one-year anniversary issue of the sorely missed Willows Magazine, issue #5 of Macabre Cadaver Magazine, issue #9 of Werewolf Magazine, the October ’09 issue of Sonar4, issue #10 of The Monsters Next Door, November and December issues of Death Head Grin, Dark and Dreary Magazine – as well as upcoming issues of Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine and The Absent Willow Review. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, where he plays keyboard in a local alt/rock band called Think Big, and lives with his unequivocal girlfriend, Britt.

Abra Staffin-Wiebe's publications include stories in Baen's Universe, Art Times, Allegory, and Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine. She maintains Aswiebe's Market List, a resource for science fiction, fantasy, and horror market listings. She also runs the annual Spec the Halls contest for speculative holiday fiction. She's currently working on Vicesteed, a steampunk science fiction novel that is a locked-room murder mystery and exploration of how society forms identity. Her other passions are photography and martial arts. She lives and writes in Minneapolis. Her website is at http://www.aswiebe.com and she blogs at http://cloudscudding.livejournal.com.

Adam Armstrong is a life-long native of Northern Kentucky. He has sold short stories to Magazines/e-zines such as LostSouls, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and Allegory Magazine. He is a staff reviewer for Withersin Magazine (www.withersin.com) with about 130 or so reviews under his belt and counting. Feel free to contact Adam at his myspace or facebook.

Adam Francis Smith was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Of his public school education, he likes to say, "I learned more in the halls than in the classrooms." He is a watcher of people and writes about what he sees. Perhaps you will find yourself in one of his stories, or at the least, someone you know.

Allen Kopp is a technical writer and lives in St. Louis. His work has been published in Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Temenos, The Legendary, Danse Macabre, Bartleby-Snopes, Skive Magazine, Hoi-Polloi, Conceit Magazine, and Dark and Dreary Magazine. Future work will appear in Sunken Lines, The Storyteller, and The Bracelet Charm. Allen was a contest finalist in the Bartleby-Snopes dialogue-writing contest and a 2009 Pushcart Prize nominee for the story “Hermaphrodite Ward.”

Andrew Black is a writer of horror and dark fantasy specializing in stories set in rural Ohio.  He was born and raised in the Buckeye State and has lived with his wife and two children in the central Ohio area for the past fifteen years.

Anne Patterson Friedman is a writer and digital artist. She holds degrees in philosophy and social psychology. After following other career paths, she is focusing on a longstanding dream of writing speculative fiction. Daily Science Fiction has accepted one of her stories, and she is seeking an agent for a novel. With her husband, she lives on and manages a wildlife sanctuary in Florida.

Augustus Peake is currently teaching English in the UAE. He has been an English teacher for almost 20 years and has worked in various locations including Japan, Greece and Saudi Arabia.

Betsy Dornbusch splits her time between Boulder and Grand Lake, Colorado. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues such as Sinister Tales, Big Pulp, and Spinetingler. She has a novella out with Whiskey Creek Press and another forthcoming in November 2010, serves as an editor with Electric Spec, and is shopping her first novel to agents. She maintains a website at http://sexscenesatstarbucks.blogspot.com, where you can believe most of what she writes. In her free time, she snowboards and pretends to be a soccer mom. (Nobody's buying the soccer mom bit, though.)

Billy Wong is an avid fan of heroic fantasy, with a special love for hardcore warriors of the fairer sex. His fiction has appeared in many venues including Afterburn SF, Sorcerous Signals, and The Written Word. A full list of his published works can be found here: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58445

Brian has been scribbling most of his life, mainly commercial and technical literature, but has always held an ambition to write fiction one day. He has written a number of short stories, and been short-listed for several prizes and publications, but is as yet unpublished. He lived in the Far East as a young man and in London for most of the rest of his life. He now lives in rural Northern Ireland with his wife and family.

Brian is thirty-three and lives in Scotland. He has over eighty publications to his name - from humour (Defenestration) to horror (Nossa Morte), mystery (Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine) to mainstream (Southern Ocean Review). He appears in the first three volumes of paperback horror anthology, Read By Dawn, available from Bloody Books, and is currently at work on his first novel. He is married, both to his wife and his words, and runs a blog of his literary wanderings at briangrantross.blogspot.com.

Bruce Memblatt lives in New York City. He has had his stories featured in such magazines as Aphellion, Strange Weird and Wonderful, Danse Macarbe,Static Movement, SNM Horror Magazine, The Horror Zine, The Piker Press, A Golden Place, Eastown Fiction, Viola Beadleton’s Compendium of Seriously Silly and Astoundingly Amazing Stories and The Feathertale Review. His short fiction eBook “The Painter” was released by Gypsy Shadow Publishing in February 2010. His short story “Parndora’s Surprise” has been published in the anthology from Pill Hill Press Pandora’s Nightmare: The Horror Unleashed. He writes a bi-monthly series for The Piker Press based on his short story “Dinner with Henry,” The first installment appeared on March 8, 2010.

Bryan Veldboom is a part-time writer from the Milwaukee area. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. In the eight years since graduation he has been a waiter, barista, and ice cream man, written for The Milwaukee Post, and served as an office drone. He likes his fiction dark, drinks his scotch on the rocks, and writes about all manner of awful people. Still, he's not such a bad guy once you get to know him.