“Be Mysterious: Writers In Masks” Features Alison Boyd

Alison Boyd is a writer living in the Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia. She writes a regular blog at http://kittykatmandoo.blogspot.com and has had poetry, short stories and a radio play published online, as an iPhone application and in print. Most of what she writes is myth-based speculative fiction but is keen to try her hand at horror in the coming … Read More

Hello, Where Has Mercedes Gone?

I’m back, my friends!  Hafta tell ya that I was knocked flat by something resembling The Black Plague, but being sick gave me time to think about things.  Mainly all of the many things that I do because I feel like I’m supposed to do them.  Take this Thursday for example. I worked hard to obtain a type of Medallion.  It’s … Read More

“Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks” Features Cornelius Badmonk

Cornelius Agrippa Badmonk (name derived from the German magician, occultist and alchemist, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, born in 1486), is often referred to by ape scholars as the “John the Baptist of the Apes,” because he was the first super-intelligent ape to walk among men. Unfortunately, it was another 40 years before more intelligent apes walked the earth, and poor Cornelius … Read More

I Win Again! The Sonnet.

Pretty Boy Simon C. Larter lost again, and so I demanded that he write me a sonnet.  It took him, like, minutes.  If I had known how deft he was at verse, I would have made him do something a million times more difficult.  Dagnabbit, but I’m soft. Without further ado, I give you The Magnificence of Mercedes: The Sonnet! … Read More

“Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks” Features Barry Napier

Barry has had fiction and poetry published in a wide range of print and online media including Bound For Evil, Tales from the Emerald City, Southen Fried Weirdness, Every Day Poets, Death in Common, These Apparitions and Northern Haunts just to name a few.  His book Debris collects some of his shorter fiction and is currently available from Library of … Read More

Whoa. Busy. Challenges.

I’m slushing like crazy through Shock Totem.  I’m also very proud to be a slush reader for the Science In My Fiction short story contest.  On top of that, I need to write and polish my chapter a week because I live in constant fear of losing to my friend Simon.  I’ve beat him twice in a row, which makes … Read More

Resilience and Fragility

  It’s 1:00 in the morning and I can’t sleep.  I’m working on the Williams project and, quite frankly, it’s hard.  Do I believe in it? YES.  Is it a book that needs to be written?  YES.  But it hurts.  Honesty hurts. I thought that my piece coming out in the second issue of Shock Totem made me feel naked.  … Read More