head, though I knew
he was not watching my face just then.
We walked through the mist, our footsteps
growing in confidence with each passing second. I waved to Xun and
Xiao Hong, far ahead of us on the path, waiting.
The End
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Singaporean, but with a global outlook, Joyce Chng write science fiction and fantasy, YA and urban
fantasy. Her fiction has appeared in the Apex Book of World SF II,
We See A Different Frontier, Visibility Fiction, Crossed Genres and
Bards & Sages, to name a few. Her urban fantasy novels are
written under her pseudonym, J. Damask (which she will tell you is
a play on her Chinese name). The Rider trilogy, a YA SF, was
published in 2013 by Math Paper Press, an imprint of Books
Actually, an independent bookstore in Singapore.
She can be contacted at A Wolf’s Tale:
(http://awolfstale.wordpress.com)
David Jón Fuller studied theatre at
the University of Winnipeg, and Icelandic at the University of
Iceland in Reykjavík. His short fiction has appeared in Tesseracts
17, Tesseracts 18, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the
Margins of History, Accessing the Future, and Kneeling in the
Silver Light: Stories From the Great War.
He trained in Northern Shaolin style kung-fu
for two years, and more recently trained with Bissett Jiu-Jitsu for
five years. He lives in Winnipeg, Canada.
Website: www.davidjonfuller.com
Twitter: @DavidJonFuller
Holly Kench is a writer and feminist,
with a classics degree and a fear of spiders.
She enjoys writing a range of genres, but
has a particular love of fantasy. Holly seeks stories that
contemplate the world as much as books that provide escape, but
doesn’t think the two are mutually exclusive. These are the sort of
stories Holly tries to write. She is convinced we can change the
world through popular culture.
Holly manages Visibility
Fiction , a project dedicated to the promotion and
publication of inclusive young adult fiction. Visibility Fiction
began as a result of Holly’s desire to create a space that
celebrated and facilitated the telling of stories with diverse
characters. In this capacity she has had the privilege of working
with both Kelly Matsuura and Joyce Chng, who have assisted her in a
journey of not only editing, but also writing her own stories
exploring diverse cultures.
Holly also writes about her life as a
stuffed olive at:
www.stuffedolive.com.au.
Kelly Matsuura grew up in Australia,
but has lived most of her adult life in the northern hemisphere.
After a year teaching English in China, she moved to Japan where
she met her husband and lived for ten years in Nagoya, Aichi
Prefecture. Due to her husband’s work, she’s enjoying a few years
back in a western country, living in Michigan, USA.
Kelly has published numerous short stories
online, in group anthologies, and in two self-published
anthologies. She enjoys writing in various genres: fantasy,
literature, young adult, and romance.
She majored in Asian Studies and Japanese at
university, and currently studies Chinese, German, French and
Spanish purely for interest.
As the creator and editor for The
Insignia Series’ anthologies, she hopes to use her knowledge of
Asian languages and culture to assist the other authors produce
great stories and to share the group’s work with a new
audience.
Kelly’s website:
www.blackwingsandwhitepaper.com
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