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Dom Macchiaroli:

Dom Macchiaroli is an author living in Phoenix, Arizona. His comedy book, “My Parakeet was an Anarchist”, is available at http://www.pneumasprings.co.uk/MyParakeetwasanAnarchist.htm. Venture into a world of fractured history and observational nonsense. These stories will captivate and annoy you like none you’ve never not read before.
His work has appeared in numerous e-zines and newspapers. Dom enjoys making fun of his overweight cat in his spare time.
Visit his website at:
http://www.dommacchiaroli.webs.com/

Lincoln's Beard Found At HMV
Skateboarding On The Appian Way
Constipation Of The United States
The Ketchup In Worcester

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Grace Mattioli:

Grace Mattioli studied English Literature in college and works as a Librarian in San Francisco where she lives with her husband and two cats. And she firmly believes that sheep should be legal.

Happy Nuns
Park Bench
Legalize Sheep
The Latest by Darwin
A Bad Day Gone Good

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Fehmida Zakeer:

Fehmida Zakeer is based in the southern city of Chennai in India. Her work has come out in Linnet’s wings, Static Movement, Everydaypoets, the Shine Journal, Flashscribe, Muse India and 4Indianwoman.

The Elopement

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David He:

David He is an advanced English teacher in China. He is fond of writing in English. He also writes haiku in English . If you like, please contact him at richardhe@126.com.

Extra Work
Dirty Fingers
An Artist and His Granddaughter
James's Mittens
Building a Road Not Only for Others but for Yourself
Walk in the Rain
Haiku Seasons

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Mina Iyer:

Mina Iyer is a mid-30s East Indian, raised in California from age 1, and is a writer, humanist, dabbler in the arts, attorney (not currently practicing) and mother. She lives in the Bay Area with her wonderful husband, daughter, dog and cats.

On Cake and the Jockeying of Position (Usual Wedding Fare)

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Harriett Fjaagesund:

A former newspaper reporter, Harriett Fjaagesund's stories have appeared in Long Story Short, Flash Tales Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Nefarious Tales, Flash Me Magazine, Flashshot Magazine, and Bird And Moon. She now lives with her husband and three grumpy cats on the isolated Queen Charlotte/Haida Gwaii Islands, 80 miles off Canada's northwest coast.

Dessert at Grandma's House
Contender for the Gold

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Christopher Allen:

Christopher Allen, a native Tennessean, lives in Germany and writes creative non-fiction, humor and Southern literature. His work has appeared in Barack H. Obama: Vision to Victory, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People and Gathering: Writers of Williamson County, as well as in the ezines Ruthless Peoples Magazine, Flash Fire 500, Flashshot and Metazen.

My Ego Speak Portuguese Someday

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Thomas Scofield:

Thomas Scofield is a graduate of Yale University. He studied Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, acted in New York City and has spent the last five years trading lines for lucre. His drink of choice is Irish Cider and he likes mashed potatoes on his pizza. He currently lives with his partner across from an historic park, which is excellent, as he loves trees.
Website:
http://www.thomasscofield.com

Smokin'

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Rachel Kuhnle:

Rachel Kuhnle is a student studying Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, and currently lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Rachel can most often be found sitting alone in her dorm room, reading, and nursing the pangs of unrequited love and a caffeine addiction.

At the DQ

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Tony Owens:

Tony Owens lives in Brisbane with his wife and son. You can wallow in his second-rate erudition at http://iamadoctorandiwantmysausages.blogspot.com.

The Dread Symmetry of Fate
Personal Computer
O'Malley has Risen from the Grave

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William D. Hicks:

William D. Hicks is a writer who lives in Chicago, Illinois by himself (any offers?). Contrary to popular belief, he is not related to the semi-famous comedian Bill Hicks (though he’s just as funny in his own right). Hicks will someday publish his memoirs, but most likely they will be about Bill Hicks’ life.

Letter to a Country Music Station Seeking Funny Guests
The Perfect Boyfriend

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Peter McMillan:

Peter McMillan is a freelance writer and occasional ESL instructor who lives on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario.

Tradition
Rage
Shoes

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Adam Graupe:

From writing about a 180-pound bipolar wood tick to about a bear having an affair with a whore called the American Dream, Adam Graupe’s fiction has run the gamut from the strange to the bizarre. He has been published in America, Finland, and England. don’t try, his first novel, will be out in 2010.
Adam has been published in 3 am, Pen Pusher, and other magazines. 
http://adamgraupe.webs.com.

I Met a Writer
The Notebooks

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Mike Calahan:

Mike Calahan's influences include Larry Gelbart, Robert Benchley, James Thurber and Preston Sturges. He has sold numerous articles, essays and satire pieces both in print and on-line, and he had ('had' only until the economy forced cutbacks) a monthly humor column via The Humane Society's wine club, of all places. This is said only to confirm that he is, in fact, a working freelance writer and not just someone with the claim 'My mom says my stuff is really good and she reads jokes in Readers Digest, so she knows!'

Fall Down? Hmmm...Interesting

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Mike Close:

Mike Close lives in the USA.

On Being Invisible

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Peter Howard:

Originally from England, Peter Howard now lives in Kentucky, USA. He is a writer, he's almost positive. You can check his efforts out at Yellow Mama, Dew on the Kudzu, and the Short Humor Site.
He hopes you're having a nice day.

Target Practice
Chocolate Superpowers

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Melvin Lee:

The Right Wine

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David Martin:

Dave Martin is the author of the humor collection My Friend W and blogs at www.davespoliticalsatire.blogspot.com.

Enquirer Seeks Bailout

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Lee Minh Sloca:

Lee Minh Sloca was born in Vietnam, from which he escaped two weeks prior to its collapse. After college, he worked for 14 years with special needs children in various mental health and educational facilities. Seeking to expand his horizons, he shifted his focus to poetry and painting. After campaigning for Obama in the ’08 election, he is seeking work that is compatible with the President's philosophy of community. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Think I Can I Think I Can, Have A Fat Chance with Maya

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Matthew Dexter:

Matthew Dexter lives on a fortified island near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He will also probably die in Mexico. This lunatic gringo writes novels, memoirs, stories, and poetry. He belongs in an insane asylum.  

Saturdays
Freddy

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Gil A. Waters:

Gil A. Waters lives in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and likes to write. So far, he also has conned The Battered Suitcase, Clockwise Cat, Spooky Action at a Distance, Gloom Cupboard, The Legendary, Freedom Fiction Journal, and BURST into publishing him.
Visit Gil's site at:
http://www.gilwaters.com/.

The Little Things in Life
Cruising
Dysfunctional Desire
Plausible Undeniability
Imaginary Friends

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Wendy Parker:

Wendy is a practicing LPN in rural Ohio. She spends her free time writing and pondering the human psyche. She has been published in such illustrious works as "The Flash Fiction Offensive" and "The Clockwise Cat", as well as several others, who will remain unmentioned, because they are imaginary. 

Notes on Protecting the Vital Organs

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Peter Mugerwa:

Peter Mugerwa is a 27 year old teacher of Literature in English and the English language from Uganda. He is a graduate of Kyambogo University.

Of Courtesy, Platitudes and Wit

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Nomi Liron:

Nomi Liron lives in the Bay Area of California. She mainly write flash fiction but is also working on a novel. Her stories have appeared in Powder Burn Flash, Dew on the Kudzu, The Linnet’s Wings, Clever Magazine, Bicycle Review, Flashshot, Soft Whispers, Shoots and Vines, Joyful, and Breadcrumb Sins.

The Competition

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M. Allman:

M. Allman resides in rural Indiana with her husband and two children. Her first book of short stories, Tales from Imagination's Closet, is scheduled to be published in March 2011 through Midnightshowcase.com. She has had several short stories in various genres published by online magazines including Bewildering Stories, Clever Mag, Southern Ocean Review, Burst, and MicroHorror.
You can find more about this author on her website:
http://msmithallman.webs.com/.    

Clowning Around
Fantastic Fran

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Lily Mulholland:

Lily Mulholland is Australia’s best-known author. Well, actually, she’s not. But she could be, if only she had more time to write. Until then, flash fiction is her springboard to fame. Or possibly infamy. You can read more of her work at Ten Seconds a Day - http://tensecondsaday.blogspot.com.

Infamous
Nellie's Web

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Robert C. J. Graves:

Robert C. J. Graves lives with his wife, Emily, in Emporia, KS, where he teaches general education classes at Flint Hills Technical College. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including 491 Magazine, the Bijou Poetry Review, Chickenpinata, Crash, the Chiron Review, Eclectic Flash, Eleutheria - The Scottish Poetry Review, Haiku Ramblings, Mikrokosmos, Poetry for the Masses, Prairie Poetry, Vox Poetica, and Word Salad Poetry Magazine.  A former bartender and freelance sports writer, Robert holds a Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Writing) from Bowling Green and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Wichita State.

A Mid Spring's Day Dream

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Mary Whitsell:

Mary's non-fiction has been published in MotherVerse, Glassfire, and Eclectica. She won the Killie Writer of the Year prize and the United Kingdom Noise Association's Short Story Competition in 2006, and her poetry has appeared in Flashquake and Midwest Literary Magazine. She is currently finishing a novel which was one of the finalists in the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook Novel Writing Competition, and she won first prize in the Charnwood Arts 2008 miniWORDS Poetry Competition. Mary writes a weekly blog, Resident Alien, http://witzl.blogspot.com/.

Chill Out

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J. M. Cinq-Mars:

J.M. Cinq-Mars lives in Massachusetts and has decided not to become an astronaut. Her stories have appeared in Everyday Fiction, Microhorror, Long Story Short, Postcard Shorts, and on her tax returns.
You can see some of her work and judge how crazy she is by visiting http://jmcinq-mars.blogspot.com/.

First Date: McDonald's At the Mall
Quitting Smoking: Day One

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Jimmy Neenan:

Jimmy Neenan is a creative writing/education major at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

At Least It's Not A Rancor

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Wayne Carlan:

Wayne Carlan is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is an amateur writer that started out just amusing friends and family but is starting to have some small time success. He has been published is several online magazines, one being Divine Caroline. He writes stories under the name "Dr. Philbilly". They are reader friendly short stories of his true life experiences written in a funny way. More of his stories can be found at www.sobeautymag.com. He has a column there titled "The Dr. Philbilly Show".

THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Mr. X And The Poodle Dog ....... THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Department Store Hijinks  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Melissa's Snake   THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Click Clack  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Hey Little Fella   THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Come To Me  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - How Not To Drink A Yoohoo   THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Hush Puppies  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - The Kung-Fu Armadillo   THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Flip Flop  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Fishin' With Paw In Law   THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Road Trip  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Lights Out On Aisle 16   THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Leopard Thongs  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Kaboom!   THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Zombie Land  
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - Flipper - The Toe      
THE DR. PHILBILLY SHOW - The Great Paint Ball War of 2005      

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Alexi Russell:

Alexei Maxim Russell is a working writer, living in Winnipeg, Canada. His work runs the gamut from literary prose, to genre fiction, to creative non-fiction.
With over 43 short works and 2 completed novels to his credit, his literary pursuits go beyond traditional prose--extending into poetry, audio fiction, dramatic scripts and screen-plays.
Visit his website at:
http://alexei-m-russell.tripod.com/.

Unhand That Monocle

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Janet Yung:

Janet Yung lives and writes in St. Louis. Short fiction has appeared most recently in The Shine, Bring the Ink, Lunarosity and The Scrambler.

Seating Arrangement

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Jimmy Calabrese:

Jimmy Calabrese is a singer, songwriter and bass player for the horror rock band CALABRESE. His stories have appeared on Microhorror; Flashes in the Dark; Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers; The Flash Fiction Offensive; Everday Weirdness and in the Toe Tags Horror Anthology.
Visit the band's website at
www.CalabreseRock.com.

Free Monster to a Good Home

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John McDonnell:

John McDonnell is a freelance writer who lives in Doylestown PA with his wife and four children. He writes many types of fiction and poetry, but enjoys flash fiction quite a lot.
His flash fiction blog is at 
http://mcdonnellwrite.blogspot.com/.

The Probe

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Cedric Botfrob:

Cedric Botfrob is a Learning Solutions Support Officer at Saint Street School. His accounts of school life can be read at www.saint-street.net/home.htm.

The Woodwork Ethic
Five A Day

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John Ye:

John Ye, aged 46, is a language teacher in Gansu, China. He graduated from Shanghai Foreign language Studies. His major is English literature.

The Shepherds' Theory of Relativity

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Michael C. Keith:

Michael C. Keith has authored numerous books, articles, and stories. The latter have appeared in Grey Sparrow, The Greensilk Journal, Bewildering Stories, The Absent Willow Review, Forge Journal, Bartleby Snopes, Cynic Magazine, Black Lantern Publishing, The Horror Zine, Boston Literary Magazine, and Danse Macabre, to name just a few. He teaches communication at Boston College.

He Had a Series of Flashes Before Going Under
What a Way to Go

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G David Scwartz:

G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. He is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, he continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered online:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1418489565/104-8454011-6722310?n=28315.

The Furious Sneeze

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Dan Marvin:

Dan Marvin is the Author of Briefs for the Reading Room, a collection of 101 cheeky flush fiction tales and is hard at work on A Change of Briefs.
You can learn more about him at
www.danmarvin.net.

Let Loose the Blowfish

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Edward Rodosek:

Over three dozen short stories by Edward Rodosek have been published in SF magazines in the US, UK, Australia and India.

An Impulse

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Linda Taylor:

Linda Taylor is a mature Irish lass living in Glasgow. Linda at present is a part-time Open University Student studying for a Physics and Astronomy Degree but would love to be a professional writer.

Alek Comes to Earth

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Joel Shulkin:

Joel Shulkin is a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician by day, writer by night. His work has been published in Joyful!, StoryTeller Tymes, Daikaijuzine, and Caper Literary Journal. He has also won a national award for medical fiction.

Thank You for Your Cooperation

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Orest Talpash:

Orest Talpash writes in Edmonton, Alberta. His work reflects a wide-eyed Canadian perspective of the world, as seen in short stories recently published in The Prairie Journal and in the collection Rybalski's Son.

Hyndman's Wallograph # 56

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Shonna Gillis:

Shonna Gillis loves to do two things: worship the sun in Dolores Park and play with kittens. She currently resides in San Francisco.

Last Night

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Neil Wollman:

Neil Wollman; Ph. D. is the Senior Fellow, Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility, at Bentley University; Waltham, MA.

"Resist and Refuse" The Health Care Bill: Real Patriots Taking Real Actions Against ObamaCare

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Jeffrey Payne:

Jeffrey Payne is a student in the Creative Writing program at Franklin Pierce University. He is also columnist for the school newspaper, Pierce Arrow. 

What Is Yours Is Yours, What Isn't Is Dangerous

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Mary J. Breen:

Among other things, Mary J. Breen teaches memoir writing in Ontario, Canada. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in national newspapers, essay collections, travel magazines, health journals and literary magazines.

Zucchinis In The Night

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Wanda Morrow-Clevenger:

Wanda Morrow-Clevenger lives and writes in Hettick, Illinois, where the line between fiction and nonfiction quakes and devious humor awaits.
Twenty-one pieces of her work appear scattered among a wide range of online zines.

Mr. Mack Gets His Bead On
Bye-Bye Barbie

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Matt Arnold:

Matt Arnold possesses a highly overactive imagination that has to date produced three novels and many short stories. Currently he is a paraeducator in a high school program for students with severe developmental disorders. His novels include Crossroads, An Open Universe, and The Shattered Silence. He lives near Seattle, Washington and greatly appreciates anyone who has taken the time to read any of his work.
Visit his website at MattArnoldTheWriter.Webs.Com to learn more about him.

Falling off the wagon

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Rachel Carmody:

Rachel Carmody is a student at Franklin Pierce University, majoring in English on the writing track. She is also a writing tutor and on the staff for the campus literary magazine. Her work has appeared in recent issues of Nevermore.

The Bible Lady

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