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Not That Kind of Dream Girl A man at the crossroads of good and evil is perfect prey for the City. The Author: Evan Berkow is a writer of speculative fiction in the hours when he's not lawyering. His fiction has appeared in a bunch of places, such as Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and Crossed Genres Magazine. He's a member of SFWA, Codex, and the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers critique group. He lives in Pleasantville, NY, with his wife, kids, and a small menagerie consisting of two enormous gray cats and one adorable rescue dog. You can find him on Twitter @Evan_Berkow or email him at eberkow (at) gmail (dot) com. The Actor: Lora Nicolas is an actor and singer based in New York City. Originally from Manila, Philippines, she moved to NYC when she received a scholarship to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) for musical theatre. She eventually went to play her dream role since she was five years old--Kim in Miss Saigon--at the beautiful Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ, and again in Midtown Arts Center in Fort Collins, CO, for which she won a BroadwayWorld Denver Award for Best Actress. Her other favorite roles include Anita in West Side Story, Joanne in Rent, Lucy in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Janet Van de Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone, Christmas Eve in Avenue Q, and Meg in Little Women. She also originated the role of Hannah in Vital Theater's StinkyKids--Off Broadway Alliance Award Winner for Best Family Musical. She has worked and toured all over the U.S., and has recently performed in three concerts in Tochigi and Tokyo, Japan and will be returning in the summer. She is a huge geek for the sci-fi and fantasy genres, and "casually cosplays" for fun. (Follow her Instagram @dailycasualcosplays). She is very passionate about diversity in art and media, and her ultimate dream is to do a project that could get her at a Comiccon panel in front of a room full of her "peeps". --------------------------------------------- The Story Our detective goes South of the Rio Grande to solve a mysterious murder that's fishier than...well...fish. The Author: One sunny day in January, Art Center College of Design handed Fred Stesney a BFA in illustration. That led to a long career as an advertising copywriter, a short one as a radio producer and audio engineer, and a new beginning as a writer, artist and illustrator. He – and please pardon him for writing about himself in the third person – lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and son. https://fredstesney.wordpress.com/about-2/ Twitterer @fredstesney