WORLDS ON HIM LIKE PEARLS ON A STRING, by Charles Kraszewski.
Few things cheer us up like finding a poet who is pure EAP …a special kind of monster…
GET A RAKE: MONSTERS IN THE GARDEN (A COLLECTION), by Debbie Naples.
Just who are the monsters in the garden?…let’s explore…
COEXISTING WITH MONSTERS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, by Brian Griffith.
We might think they’re monsters, but what do THEY think about us?…
CRAWL, by Kelsey Liu.
EAP’s favorite young writer introduces a monster who makes the hair stand up on the backs of your arms…
THE FISHERMAN AND THE DRAUG, by Tim J. Myers.
We’ve met THIS monster, who sucks all the joy out of what should always be a joyous life…
IMAGINE HER SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
Speaking of poets who are pure EAP…
HOLDING UP HALF THE SKY, by Alexandra Kitty.
And a detective who rids the world of monsters is pure EAP, too, thank goodness…
ZOMBIES AND MAGICIANS, by Amanda Chiado.
There has to be a zombie somewhere in a MONSTERS issue, no?…
SOOTHING NULLITY, by James Lewelling.
Not to mention a vampire…
ANTLERS ON HIS HEAD, by Brendan Hamilton.
And a mythological creature…
WISE, by David D. Horowitz.
Or just your garden variety mass murderer…
A MIDWIFE’S INSURANCE, by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew.
Sometimes you have to duck and swerve to avoid monsters and their tendency to overcontrol…
THE CONVERT, by Robert Markland Smith.
Or risk becoming a monster yourself…
TURNING ANDROID (OKAY, SMARTPHONE), LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, by Mathew Klickstein.
Of course, in some ways we’re all monsters…
THANK GOD FOR MONSTERS, by Alena Deerwater.
And that’s often a creative thing…
BUNNY’S BRAIN, by Marie Davis & Margaret Hultz.
Take Bunny, for instance…
THE TOD BLOG delights in summer…while JAM TODAY deals with a medium sized disaster…
This issue’s picture is by EAP’s own house photographer ALEX COX …He loves monsters…
Next issue is 1 October, and it’s the Fall 2013: History Repeats Herself issue…now that we’ve come to the end of History…contributions by 1 September, please…
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