Heater Vol. 03 No. 09

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Contents:

Killing the Competition
Richard E. Grebe

Two Feet Deep
Michael Pool

All-American Summer
DG Bracey

A Gift for Rosa
Edward McDermott

The Night Linda Went Missing
Anna Schell

Contributors:

Richard E. Grebe wore many hats before finding the time to write stories and poems that often draw from events in his life. As a writer he was awarded an honorable mention for a humorous short story, “The Grave Robbers,” in the Jim Stone Memorial Contest. His novelette, The Evil Creation of John Baron, was published as an ebook by No Boundaries. He is a frequent contributor to Prime Time News, a local monthly paper with a circulation of 4,000. Richard calls upon eight years’ experience as a police officer when he writes in the mystery/thriller genre.

Michael Pool lives in Seattle, Washington. His short fiction has been featured in magazines such as All Due Respect, Thuglit, Out of the Gutter, and Urban Graffiti. His debut noir novella, Debt Crusher, is due out from All Due Respect Books on February 15, 2016. Find him online at www.michaelpool.net.

DG Bracey is a teacher, a student, and a freelance writer from the Carolina coast. He's published short stories in various journals, including Criminal Class Review, Misfits' Miscellany, Petigru Review, The Saturday Evening Reader, Scissor and Spackle, Short Story America, Stanley the Whale, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Trust and Treachery Anthology, and Underground Voices. In nonfiction, his reporting has garnered several awards, including the South Carolina Press Association Award for Best Investigative Series. To keep up with DG Bracey, follow him on Facebook and Twitter, and if you see him on the street, give him a wave.

Edward McDermott, born in Toronto, has a professional day job but spends his spare time pursuing a writing career. Aside from taking writing courses and participating in writers' groups, Edward takes time for sailing, fencing, and working as a movie extra. His work has appeared in Noir Nation, Midnight Echo, Wisdom Crieth Out, and The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir; his story “On the Lake Where the Loons Cry” was published by Damnation Books. Find out more at http://www.edwardmcdermott.net/.

Anna Schell received her MA in English from the University of Nevada, Reno, and her MA in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing has been published in numerous San Francisco Bay Area publications, including SF Weekly, Marin Magazine, and the East Bay Express. She has also been published in Outside magazine and won a California Newspaper Publishers Association award for her environmental reporting. Her short fiction has been published in Blue Monday Review. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives there still.