Scout & Engineer No. 1

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The first issue of this philosophy-centered literary magazine features writing from T.D. Edge, Nemone Thornes, Zeke Jarvis, Erika Holzer, and Christopher Blonde; an interview with "A Mountain of Crumbs" author, Elena Gorokhova; and original cover art from John Cox.

Scout & Engineer is a quarterly print and electronic publication dedicated to excellent short fiction with an individualist focus.

Illustrator John Cox lives in Decatur, Georgia where he works on assignments that combine the lively commentary of Cox and Forkum editorial cartoons with the lush detail work he developed on his website, www.johncoxart.com.

T.D. Edge now lives in London. He has been a street theatre performer, props maker for the Welsh Opera, sign writer, schools caretaker, soft toys salesman, professional palm-reader, trainer, and editor. He won a Cadbury's fiction competition at age 10 but only did it for the chocolate. When that ran out, he got writing again and published several children's/YA books with Random House, Scholastic, Corgi, and others. A few years back, he attended the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop where he learned a lot, including how to hug. His short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including End of an Aeon, Realms of Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Flash Fiction Online.

Nemone Thornes was born in Yorkshire, England, and studied Philosophy at Cambridge University. She began writing short fiction in 2007. Her stories have been published by Leaf Books, Writers' Forum, The Yorkshire Post, and The New Writer. Her work also appears in "New Stories 5," the anthology of the 2011 Willesden Herald Prize, and online.

Zeke Jarvis is an Assistant Professor at Eureka College, where he edits ELM. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Heavy Feather Review, Shakespeare's Monkey, and Bitter Oleander.

In the mid-to-late 1960s, lawyer-turned-novelist Erika Holzer, with her husband, represented Ayn Rand. Holzer is the author of "Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher--A Novelist's Mentor-Protege Relationship with the Author of Atlas Shrugged." Library Journal dubbed Holzer's novel, "Double Crossing," "A spectacular twist on the old Iron Curtain escape." Paramount Pictures turned her thriller "Eye for an Eye" into a feature film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Sally Field. Holzer's website is www.erikaholzer.com.

Christopher Blonde's blog, concerned with food and odd dreams, can be found at www.christopherblonde.tumblr.com.

Elena Gorokhova grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, although for most of her life it was known as Leningrad. At the age of twenty-four she married an American and came to the United States with one twenty-kilogram suitcase to start a new life. Now Elena is a writer and lives in New Jersey. Her website is www.elenagorokhova.com.