Staff

	Bradley Sands (Editor-in-Chief) is the author of the novel, IT CAME FROM BELOW THE BELT (Afterbirth Books) . After attempting to steal all the spare change in a shopping mall's fountain by hot-wiring the sports car being displayed in the mall lobby and crashing it into the water, Bradley tested the claim that putting a thumbtack in a escalator's handrail turns it into stairs and embarrassed the pursuing security guards to such an extent that they were neither able to continue shouting menacingly nor have legs that functioned properly. Little did Bradley know, the escalator was an experimental model designed to tie a rider's shoelaces seconds before they were caught in the track and experienced a messy horror movie death. And that the fiendish escalator manufacturing horde had rushed the units in without first properly testing them. And that the thrust of the tack would cause a series of mysterious circumstances that most likely had something to do with radiation, endowing Bradley with the power to have people do the opposite of everything that he says. His new era of greatness began with telling mall security not to hurt him. He has spent the last few years recuperating in Northampton, Massachusetts.
	Jason Moore (Associate Editor), a native of New Orleans, is a strange mixture of Indian, Spanish, French, German, British, and African blood. As a result, he is both athletic and awkward, sensitive and cold, virile and sexually repressed. Worst of all, he never knows whom to root for during the World Cup.
	Cicily Janus (Assistant Editor) is an active-protagonist-turned-writer who refuses to play charades with her rats. Emily Elizabeth and Wendy the Dumbo Rat beg her daily, but she insists that it takes up too much of her free time. Instead, she spends her days trying to grow money on trees. When not completely submerged in her trees and rats, she writes fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and book reviews. Some of her short fiction, book reviews, and non-fiction has appeared or is scheduled to appear in Aesthetica, The Del Sol Review, Outsider Writers, Underground Voices, Venus Envy: A Magazine for Women, and The Writers Post Journal. Scintillating Publications will release her chap book, THE PENCIL PUSHER'S PROSE, in early 2008. She is currently working on a novel, which will not be about rats or trees or anything close to those subjects. And yes, she thinks that frogs' legs (and probably rats too) taste like chicken.
	James Taintor (Web Design) has associated monotone voices with imminent death ever since this weird dream he had when he was seven years old.