That's when I saw this beautiful AMY STERN walking I picked up my car phone to perpetrate like I was talking

AMY STERN

Amy Stern is basically the female Kyle Beachy.


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Tuesday, March 10
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Oh-kay, here's the situation KYLE BEACHY's parents went away on a week's vacation and They left the keys to the brand new Porsche Would they mind?

KYLE BEACHY

Kyle Beachy's first novel, The Slide, has been called 'strange' and 'unusual' and 'fierce' and 'tense' and 'funny' and 'terribly sad'. He is 5'9" and thirty years old.


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And check out this great review of The Slide in the Chicago Tribune!

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MEGAN STIELSTRA said, "Mom, what are you doing, you're ruining my rep" Mom said, "You're only sixteen, you don't have a rep yet"

MEGAN STIELSTRA

Megan Stielstra runs 2nd Story, an urban storytelling series set in wine bars where she regularly tells stories to drunk people. A recent Opium Literary Death Match champ, she's performed for The Goodman, The MCA, The Neo-Futurarium, Story Week and The Dollar Store, among others. Her writing has appeared in Other Voices, Freshyarn, Swink, Pindeldyboz, The 2nd Hand, Punk Planet and regularly on Chicago Public Radio. She teaches fiction at Columbia College and The U of C. Visit her at www.meganstielstra.com.


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So to you other SIMON A SMITHS all across the land There's no need to argue Parents just don't understand

SIMON A. SMITH

Simon A. Smith is fairly close to receiving his MFA in Language Arts Education. He's also close to finishing the world's most amazing novel of all time. In his spare time he enjoys being humble, drinking scotch and trying to stop thinking about wanting cigarettes. His stories have appeared in Quick Fiction, Opium, Word Riot, Dogzplot, Skive, Storyglossia and blah blah blah...


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You know parents are the same No matter time nor place They don't understand that AD JAMESON is going to make some mistakes

AD JAMESON

A D Jameson is a writer, video artist, and performer. Last year he completed both a prose collection, "Amazing Adult Fantasy," and a novel, "Giant Slugs." His writing has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, elimae, and various other journals. Adam's currently working on a second novel and several novellas.


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Well-a, I like 'em real wild, b-boy style by the mile Smooth SEAN LOVELACE with a smile

SEAN LOVELACE

Sean Lovelace is on a river right now. He has a book and a beer. Other times he teaches at Ball State University. His work recently appeared in CrazyHorse, Willow Springs, and so on.


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Straight up, wait up, hold up, Mr. Lover Like Prince said you're a sexy mutha-PETER MARKUS

PETER MARKUS

Peter Markus is the author of three short books of short-short fiction, Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish. His stories have appeared in Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, 3rd Bed, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, Third Coast, Another Chicago Magazine, New Orleans Review, Unsaid, Post Road, Sleeping Fish, New York Tyrant, among elsewhere, and have appeared in the anthologies New Sudden Fiction, Fiction Gallery, Sudden Stories, PP: FF, The Best of the Prose Poem, as well as online at 5_Trope, failbetter, taint, elimae and in a previous issue of Avatar Review. Bob, or Man on Boat, available from Dzanc Books, is his first novel.


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You're a shotgun - bang! What's up with that SAMUEL LIGON? I wanna know how does it ROBERT LOPEZ?

ROBERT LOPEZ

Robert Lopez is the author of Part of the World. His fiction has appeared in dozens of journals. A new novel, Kamby Bolongo Mean River is forthcoming in September from Dzanc Books. He teaches fiction writing at The New School, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.


SAMUEL LIGON

Samuel Ligon is the author of Drift and Swerve (Autumn House 2009), and Safe in Heaven Dead, a novel, (HarperCollins 2003). His stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, Post Road, Keyhole, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Sleepingfish, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University, and is the editor of Willow Springs.


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Can I get some fries with that shake-shake bootie? If looks could kill BRIAN KUBARYCZ would be an uzi

BRIAN KUBARYCZ

Brian Kubarycz writes and paints in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he teaches for the Honors College at the University of Utah. Brian received his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Quarterly and Unsaid.


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Ummm, you're packed and you're stacked 'specially in the back Brother, wanna thank your mother for a butt like that (thanks, KIM CHINQUEE)

KIM CHINQUEE

Kim Chinquee is the author of Oh Baby (Ravenna Press), the forthcoming Big Cages (White Pine Press), and is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Online Writing: Best of the First Ten Years
(Snowvigate Press). She is the recipient of a Henfield Prize and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Buffalo, New York.


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Shoop shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop BLAKE BUTLER

BLAKE BUTLER

Blake Butler is the author of EVER (Calamari Press 01/09) and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books 09/09). His work has appeared in Fence, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, New York Tyrant, etc. He lives in Atlanta and blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com.


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Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do So well it's a spell, hell, makes BRIAN EVENSON wanna shoop shoop shoop

BRIAN EVENSON

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain (Coffee House) which was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG Award and was among Time Out New York's top books of 2006. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown Universityís Literary Arts Program. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean FrÈmon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. A novel, Last Days, and a new collection of stories, Fugue State, are forthcoming in 2009.


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Lick him like a lollipop should be licked Came to my senses and JANET DESAULNIERS chilled for a bit

JANET DESAULNIERS

Janet Desaulniers published a collection of stories called What You've Been Missing. She's finishing a book of miniatures called The Last American Novel and starting a memoir about teaching & writing & death. An excerpt, Murderer, is forthcoming in the Seattle Review. She is right now walking and typing this at her treadmill desk, which is her current best thing.


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Felt it in my hips so I dipped back to my bag of tricks Then I flipped for a tip, make me wanna do tricks for LINDSAY HUNTER

LINDSAY HUNTER

Lindsay Hunter is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has previously been published in Nerve, Featherproof, MAKE, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. All that she wants is another baby--he's gone tomorrow, but all that she wants is another baby.


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A ho? No, that don't make TOBIAS AMADON BENGELSDORF See what I want slip slide to it swifty

TOBIAS AMADON BENGELSDORF

Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf’s fiction has appeared in elimae, and This Zine Will Change Your Life, and his audio work in Lark(!). He is the generalissimo of Fiction at Work, an assistant editor at The Green Lantern, an instructor at St. Augustine College, and the Quickies! Mascot. He lives in Chicago.


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Wicked, wicked (oooo) - had to kick it I'm not shy so I asked for JAC JEMC's digits

JAC JEMC

Jac Jemc sells books in Chicago. Recent work has appeared from featherproof, ml Press, bearcreekfeed, Handsome, Bird Dog and Word Riot.


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I swear, I stared, my niece my witness The MARY HAMILTON had it goin' on with somethin' kinda...uh

MARY HAMILTON

Mary Hamilton lives in Chicago where she is an optician and writer-type. Her work has previously appeared in Eclectica, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, Rumble and many other online places. Mary is also the co-founder and co-host of Quickies! this here Chicago reading series.


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Ok then, chillin', chillin', mindin' my business (word) Yo, JOE SALVATORE, I looked around, and I couldn't believe this

JOSEPH SALVATORE

Joseph Salvatore teaches writing and literature at The New School for Social Research in New York City. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Atelier Abroad, The Brooklyn Rail, Dossier Journal, Free Associations, Omnivore, Open City, Pleiades Arts North, Post Road, Red Skies, Routledge’s Encyclopedia of Queer Culture (Routledge, 2003), Sleeping Fish, Soundings East, Willow Springs, and 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11th (NYU Press, 2001). He lives in Queens.


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Here I go, here I go, here I go again, Girls, what's my weakness? (ANDREW RICHMOND!)

ANDREW RICHMOND

Andrew Richmond's fiction has appeared in Post Road, New Orleans Review, Sleepingfish, and Agriculture Reader. His photos have appeared in Post Road and 2005 Photographer Forum’s Annual Best of Photography. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School in NYC and currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.


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He keeps me on Cloud Nine just like the Temps He's not a fake wannabe tryin' to be a CHAD CHMIELOWICZ

CHAD CHMIELOWICZ

Chad Chmielowicz lives in Chicago and mostly writes poems. You can find one here.


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