Reflection's Edge: The E-Zine for Thoughtful Readers & Writers

West London was, as always, abuzz. Even at 4:00 AM on a chilly November Tuesday, electric motorcars whirred down Kings Road, zipping people along, early to work or late from [...]

In the time when the world was still forming, there were a few animals, some people, and many, many gods. At this time, there was a dry valley that had [...]

The stars were becoming transparent as light crept over the horizon. Greg hissed in frustration. If he didn’t get the fans on this part of the atmospheric controller fixed before [...]

Why, with everything prime, would I answer the goddamn phone? In the Ten it’s just me and my restaurant. A narrow world of one-way streets and alleyways, black hot concrete and steel. Not much room for the natural things. Hell, there’s barely air that’s fit to breathe. Roses live in tacky plastic pots, vegetables come wrapped in neon gumbands stamped with smiling company mascots. But I like…

In this pulp-noir short story collection, tough men and women grit their teeth through lousy jobs and half-crazy plays for action. Whether they’re on the top of the heap or [...]

Outside the cadre of die-hard fans of western fiction, few of its authors have much popular cache—Zane Grey; Larry McMurtry; Cormac McCarthy. The number of westerns on the shelf of [...]

Austin, Texas played host to the 2010 Writer’s League of Texas Writer’s Conference June 25-27 at the Hyatt Regency downtown. The agents and editors conference attracted writers from all over [...]

David Oppegaard received critical acclaim and a Bram Stoker nomination for his first novel, the Suicide Collectors. A post-apocalyptic tale, the Suicide Collectors took a very personal look at [...]