A flood sees a plate as a dullish parallelogram. In modern times authors often misinterpret the shoe as a nimbused flesh, when in actuality it feels more like a caring mercury. The zeitgeist contends that their condition was, in this moment, a baptist grey. The jails could be said to resemble scandent cemeteries.
MAURICE BROADDUS’ dark fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and web sites, and he’s the author of the urban fantasy series, THE KNIGHTS OF BRETON COURT. He has been a teaching artist for over five years, teaching creative writing to elementary, middle, and high school students as well as adults. You can visit his site at MauriceBroaddus.com. His anthology, DARK FAITH: INVOCATIONS, has just been released from Apex Books. His KNIGHTS OF BRETON COURT trilogy has been released as an omnibus from Angry Robot books.
Christine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an English father and American-Swiss mother. She was brought up mainly in Brussels, and educated there, at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. During World War II she worked at Bletchley Park as a WAAF in intelligence, later completing her university degree. She then worked for a time in London as a literary journalist and scholar. She was married three times: to Rodney Bax, whom she met at Bletchley Park; to the poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz; and briefly to Claude Brooke. On separating from Pietrkiewicz in 1968 she moved to France, teaching at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988. After she retired she lived in the south of France. (more…)
Ira Brooker is a freelance writer and editor living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He does a lot of arts and culture writing for venues including Cracked, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Rupert Pupkin Speaks, and plenty of others.
Summer Brooks is a story addict who watches way too much television. She enjoys putting her encyclopedic knowledge to the test during discussions and interviews about scifi, horror and comics, and does so as the longtime host and producer of Slice of SciFi, and as co-host of The Babylon Podcast.
Summer also does voiceovers & narrations for Tales to Terrify, StarShipSofa and Escape Pod, among others, and is an avid reader and writer of science fiction, fantasy and thrillers, with a handful of publishing credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing an urban fantasy tale, and a monster movie creature feature or two.
A cadaverous beast shuffles onto a dark stage. It wears a top hat and it carries a bone cane. The music cranks to life and the thing begins abruptly to dance, a urine-coloured spotlight illuminating its decrepit face. “Whoopsie daisy,” chants the herky jerky creature. “Whoopsie daisy, come on dowwwwwwn.” A muffled shriek comes from the audience, and the beast’s face whips up with an expression of sudden, frenzied joy. “Whoopsie daisy, come on down. Bring the kids, it’s Sasha Brown!”
Bsky: sashabrown / website: sashabrownwriter.com
Valery Bryusov was born on 13 December 1873 (recorded as 1 December, according to the old Julian calendar) into a merchant’s family in Moscow. His parents were educated for their class but had little do with his upbringing, and as a boy Bryusov was largely left to himself. He spent a great deal of time reading “everything that fell into [his] hands,” including the works of Charles Darwin and Jules Verne, as well as various materialistic and scientific essays. The future poet received an excellent education, studying in two Moscow gymnasiums between 1885 and 1893.