Amy Grech has sold over 100 short stories to various anthologies and magazines. Alien Buddha Press published her poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self. You can find her on her website, CrimsonScreams.com. She read from a short story in which a woman’s dead husband manifests from a pile of basement dust.

Robert Taylor has been involved in theater, writing, acting, directing and producing for the past 50 years. He performed a soliloquy from a play he’s written, an 80-year-old man, mortality, and roses.