THUGLIT Issue Seven (13 page)

I pick up the chum bucket.
There's still a quart or so of blood and fish guts in the bottom. Plenty. I step up onto the railing, balancing myself with my free hand on the roof of the cabin.

"
Thanks again, Tom."

I step off into the water.

JOE CLIFFORD
is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and managing editor of
The Flash Fiction Offensive
. He also produces Lip Service West, a "gritty, real, raw" reading series in Oakland, CA. Joe is the author of three books:
Choice Cuts
and
Wake the Undertaker
(Snubnose Press), and
Junkie Love
(Battered Suitcase Press). Joe's writing can be found at
www.joeclifford.com
.

MARIE S. CROSSWELL
graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2012. She's studied the art of writing fiction with authors and professors Stella Pope Duarte, Victoria Redel, April Reynolds Mosolino, Jamaica Kincaid, Eric Puchner, and Melvin Bukiet. She is currently working on her first novel. She lives in Phoenix, AZ.

EDWARD HAGELSTEIN
lives in Tampa, Florida. His fiction has appeared in The Harbinger, Sundog Lit, Thuglit, Pithead Chapel, A Twist of Noir, Drunken Boat, The Whistling Fire and Phoebe.

ED KURTZ
is the author of
Bleed
,
Control
,
Dead Trash
, and
A Wind Of Knives
, as well as numerous short stories. His work has appeared in Dark Moon Digest, Thuglit, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Beat to a Pulp, Shotgun Honey, and the anthology
Mutation Nation
: Tales of Genetic Mishaps, Monsters, and Madness. Ed resides in Texas, where he is at work on his next novel and running his genre imprint, Redrum Horror
.
Visit Ed Kurtz online at
http://www.edkurtz.net
.

CHRISTOPHER E. LONG
's debut young adult novel,
Hero Worship,
will be published in early 2014 by Flux. His comic book writing has been published by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing and Image Comics. He only did two things of value during his twenties—graduate from college and marry his wife—everything else was a big, fat waste of brain cells. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son.

JUSTIN ORDONEZ
novel, Sykosa, was published in April 2012. It was awarded 2nd place in the Five Star Publications book award for fiction. It was also a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Review's award for fiction. He's guest-blogged for Novel Publicity, ReaderGirls, CreativeReads, and many others.

MICHAEL SEARS
is the author of
Black Fridays
, nominated for five major awards this year, and the upcoming
Mortal Bonds
.  Before he made the leap and began writing full time, he worked on Wall Street for more than twenty years as a manager and a trader.  He lives with his wife in Sea Cliff, NY, home to authors, artists, and sailors.

BENJAMIN WELTON
is a music critic, fiction writer, poet, and academic currently living in Burlington, Vermont. He has written for InYourSpeakers, Vantage Point, Schlock!, and Ravenous Monster. He can be contacted at
[email protected]

TODD ROBINSON
(Editor) is the creator and Chief Editor of Thuglit. His writing has appeared in Blood & Tacos, Plots With Guns, Needle Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful, Out of the Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Grift, Demolition Magazine, CrimeFactory and the anthologies
Lost Children: Protectors
, and
Danger City. He has been nominated three times for the Derringer Award, short-listed for Best American Mystery Stories, selected for Writers Digest's Year's Best Writing 2003 and won the inaugural Bullet Award in June 2011.  The first collection of his short stories,
Dirty Word
s
,
is now available and his debut novel
The Hard Bounce
is available from Tyrus Books.

ALLISON GLASGOW
(Editor) Shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

JULIE MCCARRON
(Editor) is a celebrity ghostwriter with three New York Times bestsellers to her credit. Her books have appeared on every major entertainment and television talk show; they have been featured in Publishers Weekly and excerpted in numerous magazines including People. Prior to collaborating on celebrity bios, Julie was a book editor for many years. Julie started her career writing press releases and worked in the motion picture publicity department of Paramount Pictures and for Chasen & Company in Los Angeles. She also worked at General Publishing Group in Santa Monica and for the Dijkstra Literary Agency in Del Mar before turning to editing/writing full-time. She lives in Southern California.

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