KIMOTA Issue 13
Autumn 2000
COVER art is by Transmission 23 and is called "Unlucky 13"
The following are included in Issue 13: The Torbeast's Prison - Neal Asher Way Back When - David Price Turn on the Taps - Pamela Stuart (Illustrated by T23) The Stranger In The Garden - Cherith Baldry The Fungus Communion - Alexander Glass (Illustrated by Poppy Alexander) Agnes In Wonderland - Annemarie Allen (Illustrated by Dave Windett) Despair Fish - Iain Darby Triple Glazing - John Travis Boxes - Hugh Cook 'Phone Home - Debbie Moon Stasis - Nicola Caines Always The Past - Paul Edwards
An article on Thomas Harris by David Price.
This issue the reviews are all by John Carter.
Poppy Alexander is a teacher of martial arts and University graphic designer. She paints her b/w pictures then scans them into her Mac and manipulates them on screen.
Annemarie Allan can remember when LSD meant a fish supper, a bottle of Irn Bru and change left over from a 10 shilling note. She has been a teacher, a librarian, and a lobbyist for special needs education. After living abroad in California and England, she returned to her native Scotland, where she now works part-time as Information Officer for an arts organisation. She spends the rest of her time writing unpublished fantasy novels and short stories.
Neal Asher was born in Essex and has been getting his stories published for many years in most of the small press magazines. He has also had three books published: Mindgames: Fool's Mate, The Parasite and The Engineer. Recently Neal signed a three book deal with Pan Macmillan. The first novel is to be Gridlinked -published in March 2001- followed by The Skinner. The third book is likely to be called The Line of Polity.
Cherith Baldry has been writing since 1975 with a story which was subsequently broadcast on Radio 4. Since then she has written numerous stories for the small press and books for children.
Nicola Caines lives in the West Midlands and has had stories published in Interzone, Xenos and Freudian Varient.
Hugh Cook was born in Britain but raised in New Zealand and now lives in Japan, where he has been teaching English for three years. He is currently eating lots of rice and writing a novel set in Japan. In the year 2000, his favorite brand of Japanese milk was pulled from the market after over 10,000 people became sick from drinking it, and he had to cancel a holiday on a Japanese resort island after it got hit by a typhoon, a major earthquake and a volcanic eruption, all in the same week. He sometimes fears that it is his fate to find himself living in interesting times, but hopes to avoid this fate if possible.
Paul Edwards is 24 and comes from Bristol. He works by day and writes deep into the night. He has had stories published in Peeping Tom, The Dream Zone and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. He also edits his own fanzine called Unsane. Influences include Nicholas Royle, The Stereophonics and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Iain Darby has been published in Odyssey, Crimson, The Heliograph, Words Mag, Goddess of the Bay among others.
Alexander Glass lives in London and has been published in such august magazines as Interzone and The Third Alternative.
Ceri Jordan has had her work published in many US and UK magazines, including The Third Alternative, Substance, Odyssey and Albedo One.
David Price lives in Cardiff and writes articles and acclaimed short stories which have been published in such magazines as Enigmatic Tales, Utter Entropy, Not One Of Us and Terror Tales.
Pamela Stuart lives in Alderney, Channel Islands and is an elected member of her local Government.started. She started writing in 1986 after years of living in far-flung places. Her experiences living under primitive, exciting and sometimes actually dangerous conditions, gave her the background for many years of story-writing.
T23 is short for Transmission 23 who has penned artwork for many small press magazines including Sachcloth and Ashes, Nasty Piece of Work, Redsine and has an 8 page folio in the forthcoming issue of the American occulture magazine - Esoterra.
John Travis has, so far, had about a dozen stories published. Most recently in The
Urbanite, The Zone (With DF Lewis) and Dead Things, with others to follow in
All Hallows, a story forthcoming on Simon Clark's Nailed By The Heart
website and the anthologies Dr. Knife and Other Inhuman Beings and Oktobyr 3.
Dave Windett is a comic artist who specialises in younger children's comics. One of his influences is Japanese comics with their "clean line" approach to graphic story-telling. Dave is to be a guest at the Raptus Comic Festival in Norway this year. His current projects include Ace Ventura, Oggy and the Cockroaches and Eek the Cat for Panini's Wickid comic.
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