Black Denim Lit #7: A Suitable Poison: [August, 2014]
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"Armed" by Robert Stiles (Sal Noman recieves an arm in the mail.); "Blood Melody" by Tiffany Michelle Brown (Layla is slowly starving in the ocean); "Fluttering in the Remains" by Rhoads Brazos (Manny and his son Theo take over a junkyard and find it inhabited); "The Imperfect Patsy" by John Dromey (Lewis Poindexter finds his work shifting from detecting to killing); "The Quickening" by Kate Morrow (Four friends are bloodbound in dystopia); "The Job" by Scott Blankenship (An assassin makes a change in his routine); "The Helmet" by Sean Monaghan (Salvage experts have a go outrunning ... the government?); "A Suitable Poison" by Linda Boroff (Berta sets off the culture of a magazine publishing firm with its grueling schedule and office politics with wry regard for youth, relationships and power.)
The work draws from fantasy, crime, science fiction and drama. Such genre variety is brought together under the common thread of rich characterization. In all the stories this month, these are human beings at odds. Whether they face a gun, a monster, a co-worker or the vastness of space, each of these players respond from a very deep place of truth. And regardless of which genre can be applied, the authors have surprises in store.
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Robert Stiles - Robert Stiles was educated at Columbia University. He is a fiction and poetry writer that teaches English at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta. He loves playing his guitars in the morning and reading his books at night.
Tiffany Michelle Brown - Tiffany Brown is a native of Phoenix, Arizona, and received degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. When she isn't writing, Tiffany can be found on a yoga mat, sipping whiskey, or baking cupcakes. Read more of Tiffany's work at tiffanymichellebrown.
Rhoads Brazos - Rhoads lacks his wife’s classiness, his son’s genius, and his house cat’s fearsome nature. His life is a simple one, Rockwellian with a touch of morbid fancy. He transcribes his dreams into prose and shares them with the unsuspecting. Somehow, his work has seeped into this space and other unknowing venues, including: Apex Magazine, Demon Rum and Other Evil Spirits Anthology, Gaia: Shadow & Breath Anthology, and Spark, A Creative Anthology V.
John Dromey - John H. Dromey was born in northeast Missouri. He’s had short fiction published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Gumshoe Review, Plan B Magazine, Plasma Frequency Magazine, Woman’s World (a mini-mystery), and elsewhere, as well as in a number of anthologies.
Kate Morrow - Formerly the Alpha of a secret werewolf army created out of her classroom, Kate Morrow is currently a resident of the Los Angeles area. When not beating her face against a keyboard, Kate can be found discussing all things nerd. Follow her on Twitter (@MKate04) for writerly updates and progress reports on the world domination of the werewolf-students.
Scott Blankenship - Scott Blankenship received his MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside. He lives in foggy Aptos, California with his wife, Cynthia, and their cat, Milo. In addition to writing short stories, Scott is hard at work on his first novel.
Sean Monaghan - Sean Monaghan works as an educator in a busy public library. His stories have appeared in Asimovs, Perihelion and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, among others. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest. Web: seanmonaghan.com
Linda Boroff - Linda Boroff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in English. Her fiction has been published in Epoch (Cornell University), Prism International (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Cimarron Review, Hobart, Word Riot, In Posse Review, Storyglossia, The Summerset Review, JMWW, and other journals. Her novella, A Season of Turbulence, was published in print in The Conium Review. Her short story was a winner of the Eric Hoffer Prose Competition and appeared in the anthology, Best New Writing 2011. She adapted the biography, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story, by John O'Dowd, into a screenplay currently in development with producers Ira Besserman and Barrett Stuart. She was hired to write the film, Murder in Fashion, which played at festivals and theaters in 2010. Her short story, "Light Fingers," and the adapted screenplay are under option to director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer). Her articles have appeared on McSweeney’s, Gawker and other online publications.
