Bundschuh, Cockburn, Michelle take three spots in QUALIA NOUS
Bram Stoker Award® finalist Michael Bailey has announced three more inclusions in QUALIA NOUS, the upcoming sci-fi/horror anthology from Written Backwards: “Breathe You In Me” by Mason Ian Bundschuh, “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn, and “Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle.
Michelle is the author of the DUAL HARVEST and editor of BLEED, a charity horror anthology benefiting the National Children’s Cancer Society. She is also the co-publisher and managing editor of DARK MOON DIGEST and DARK ECLIPSE, and the co-owner, chief financial officer, and graphic design specialist for Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing.
Cockburn is a London-area writer who has lived, worked, and taught in such far-flung locales as Asia and Africa, and is the is the author of the short story collection, STEEL IN THE MORNING.
Bundschuh is the author of the digital novella PIERCING THE VEIL about a grad student who takes a research position at a high-tech lab working to prove an “impossible theory” when fellow students begin disappearing, leading the main character to suspect that his co-workers may not be all that they seem.
Bailey says that the final two contributors may be selected by the end of the week, at which point he will announce the final table of contents, but for now, here’s the working order of the stories already chosen:
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik
- “The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
- “Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
- “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseille” by Emily Cataneo
- “The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson
- “Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
- “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn
- “Second Chance” by John R. Little
- “The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley
- “Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle
- “The Price of Faces” by James Chambers
- “Simulacrum” by Jason V. Brock
- “Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
- “Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen
- “The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III
- “The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas
- “Night Guard” by Erinn L. Kemper
- “A New Man” by William F. Nolan
- “Voyeur” by John Everson
- “Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
- “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Anderson
- “Dura Matter” by Lucy A. Snyder
- “Ruminations” by Rena Mason
- “Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone
- “Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
- “Breathe You In Me” by Mason Ian Bundschuh
- “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
The table of contents is almost complete.
In addition to the above stories, QUALIA NOUS will also feature two poems from Marge Simon: “Shutdown” & “Tomorrow’s Femme”, and with two more contributors on the way, that order is bound to change a little, but now we have a clearer idea of what QUALIA NOUS will look like.
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