Soul's Road: A Fiction Collection (27 page)
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Authors: Cody Luff
Icess Fernandez Rojas
has published for several newspapers including The Shreveport Times, The Wichita Eagle, and USA Today. She is a Nuestra Discovery of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say in Houston, Texas . She is co-editor of the TV review site ChicksonTv.com. When she's not writing, she's catching up on sleep, traveling, and eating as much Mexican and Cuban food as her body will allow her. Fernandez Rojas is a product of the Goddard College MFA writing program.
Nathan Chang’s
work is marked by an inquisitive mind and a restless spirit, his life measured not in years, but in periods of art. Beginning with the Early Modeling Phase, wherein Nathan learned to paint by building model airplanes, continuing through the Warhammer 40,000 Years, where he refined his painting skills and first began to write, and most recently, the Post-Self Revolution, brought on by a revelation at his third grad school residency at Goddard College, art and writing have defined Nathan's existence.
At an early age, Nathan discovered he liked to make people laugh. While it may have taken a while for his desire to manifest itself in his writing, or rather, for the writing itself to manifest, many of Nathan's works endeavor, above almost all else, to make one smile. His series of two-page sentences, the World in a Sentence Stories are perfect examples of this, though his work can have a serious side. The Neurojack Chronicles: Streets of Asperian is a role-playing game system set in a dystopian world where governments can see and hear everything you do through technology, and where dinosaurs still walk the planet.
While On the Campaign Trail originally appeared in the Pitkin Review literary magazine, it has since been refined and may perhaps become part of a larger work. The cover painting for Soul's Road is the first 2-d piece Nathan has painted in 16 years.
Having married his high school sweetheart, the only thing left on Nathan's bucket list is to see Japan.
Acknowledgements
The editor would like to express thanks to the following people:
Michelle D. Luff, Jeanne Luff, Terri Luff, Nick Gittins, Nancy Hesselroth, Rebecca Hart, for their constant support. John Barney, for his skill, professionalism and his tireless efforts as assistant editor. And finally, to you, dear reader, for walking with us for a while.
Looking for more? Please visit Soul’s Road on the web, you might find a few more free stories, good conversation and additional information on the contributors and their writing.
http://soulsroadfiction.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/Souls.Road
http://goodreads.com/book/show/11906071-soul-s-road
Notes on Previous Publication
Empirical Facts appeared in the Pitkin Review, 2009
On The Campaign Trail appeared in the Pitkin Review, 2010
Table of Contents
Deborah Grace Staley. That Girl
Ann Keeling. The Singing of the Sun
Paula Altschuler. And You're Okay With That?
Joseph Pierce. Some Kind of Apocalypse
Icess Fernandez Rojas. Of Love, Death and Marriage: The Fabled Reputation of Don Armando Mejia