Weekly Artist

Links:
http://allpoetry.com/poems/by/xxzombieROT



Contact Email address: mikayla.oglesby@yahoo.com


Education: 3rd year college student.

Likes: Learning new things, reading, sushi, writing, video games, new experiences, making music, intellectual conversations, learning about people. 

Dislikes: Closed-minded people, pity parties, extreme pessimists.

Status: Involved. 




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Name: Tyler James Gates

Tyler Gates exists barely in small town rural Midwest. His life is dotted with violent encounters with hillbillies, night jobs, alcohol binges, gas station explosions, and the occasional cult abduction. Besides pretending to be a writer he occupies his time with bouts of extreme paranoia and competition vomiting. Tyler is currently working on several novels about nothing and one about everything else.

Like almost everyone who dabbles in writing I have experimented with many forms and outlets over the years trying to find my medium. I can't say I've perfected my craft but I can say I've learned one thing; writing should be fierce, mean, unscripted, spontaneous, and personal. Besides several larger writing projects I have reluctantly taken on I most often enjoy writing flash fiction and short stories. With as busy as the world seems to have gotten it's great to be able to reach people; even if its just briefly. You can chew me out at gatestylerj@gmail.com.

Here is a bit of my more recently published work:

Small Town Blues @ Paragraph Line
http://www.paragraphline.com/tag/tyler-gates/

Something Lost @ In between Altered States
http://inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/something-lost-by-tyler-gates/

Education: Enough college to never want to go back.

Likes: Swedish Techno, nude body painting, substance abuse, waterphones, Sun- Tzu's The Art of War, unlicensed firearms, strippers, happy hour.

Dislikes: People who pretend to care; whatever it may be.

Relationship Status: Stalked.

Anything else: I expected times like these I just never thought they'd be so bad, so long, and so frequent.

Name: Pranas Perkunas (pen name)

Pranas Perkunas (pen name) is a writer, musician, and animal rights advocate. He is also working on a novel which he hopes will do very well, for he would like to do much more for animals, like donate substantially to no-kill cat shelters and maybe even bankroll a new one.

Pranas is currently constructing a colossal, Hello Kitty assault robot which will be utilized to effectively deal with wanton animal abusers by stamping them to jelly.

Under his actual name, which will not be revealed here, he has been published in various literary journals such as BLANK GUN SILENCER, SNOW MONKEY, WHISKEY ISLAND, HIDDEN OAK, ETC.

He has also been published on-line in LITERARY EROSION and THE HORROR ZINE.

His favorite writer is Kenneth Patchen.

Contact Email: fehu9@netzero.net




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