Our MECHANISTS

Mark Towse is an Englishman living in Australia. He would sell his soul to the devil or anyone buying if it meant he could write full-time. Alas, he left it very late to begin this journey, penning his first story since primary school at the ripe old age of 45. Since then, he's been published in the likes of Flash Fiction Magazine, The Dread Machine, Cosmic Horror, Suspense Magazine, ParABnormal, Raconteur, and his work has also appeared on many exceptional podcasts such as The Grey Rooms, No Sleep, Creepy, Tales to Terrify, etc.
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Martín (he/him) is just getting started! "Followers" is his first published story.

Matthew Barron writes diverse fiction in various genres and mediums, including short stories, comics and plays.

Melinda Brasher spends her time writing, traveling, and hiking. Her talents include navigating by old-fashioned map, mashing multiple languages together in foreign train stations, and dealing cards really fast. You can find her work in The Baltimore Review, Deep Magic, Leading Edge, and others. Visit her online at www.melindabrasher.com

Melissa Elborn is a writer of sinister fiction, where the monsters under your bed are real and things are not always what they seem. Her work has been published in Horla Horror, Siren’s Call, Black Hare Press and is forthcoming in New Gothic Review and The Dread Machine. Melissa haunts deepest, darkest Bedfordshire, England. Follow on Twitter: @MelissaElborn

Michael Meyerhofer is an active member of the SFWA whose his work has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Analog, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Strange Horizons, and other journals. He is also the author of the Dragonkin Trilogy, the Godsfall Trilogy, and several books of poetry. For more info and an embarrassing childhood photo, visit troublewithhammers.com.

Michael Wehunt's fiction has appeared in various places, such as The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu. His debut collection, Greener Pastures, was shortlisted for the Crawford Award and was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist.

Mob writes, boulders, and codes. Find their work on the Tales to Terrify podcast, The Dread Machine, and Old Moon Quarterly. Twitter @mob_writes

Monique L. Desir was born and raised in Florida. She's an educator who hasn’t quite figured out how to escape the Sunshine State and is surviving and thriving within its alligator-infested clutches with her husband and three sons. The daughter of West Indian parents (Haitian father, Jamaican mother), she loves learning about different cultures, languages and people. She binge-watches forensic television shows and Soca dances until she glows. Why? So she can have seconds on cake! Her stories have been published in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Nightlight Podcast, Colorism Essays and Poems anthology Volume 2, and Rivière Blanche's 2019 Dimension Uchronie short story anthology, and forthcoming in The Dread Machine. Find her on Twitter @moniquedesir.