2012 - First Stories of the New Year
Writer's Cramp has been publishing continuously for 12 years, bringing new writers from around the world to an audience of readers hungry for unique and highly professional prose and poetry. WC has evolved into primarily a genre magazine, featuring terror, suspense, horror, science fiction, detective and supernatural humor stories. For this, our first edition of our 13th year, we are proud to offer five new pieces from two of our favorite writers and to cast back to our beginnings and dig up years of the seminal stories that helped launch the phenomenon that is Writer's Cramp.
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J.B. Pravda
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J.B. Pravda
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J.B. Pravda
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J.B. Pravda
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Swami Sampurnananda
And now for some history...
Back on a cold September afternoon in 1999, the editor made overtures to three of possibly the best writers he then knew and asked if they'd be interested in helping launch a Web site Magazine for talented writers who had heretofore slipped through the editorial cracks, having no pigeonhole mainstream publications could cram them safely into. The editor wanted to offer opportunity to writers, frustrated by the system as it stood a dozen years back, and in the process offer a new venue for readers hungry for unique, sometimes bizarre, humorous and new literary fare, but always entertaining and memorable fiction and poetry.
With the launch of our first edition, on Hallowe'en, 1999, we offered among other pieces, Ronald Carpenter's "Staying Awake," Frank Thayer's "Nourishment for the Dead," and the editor's own "House at Graves End."
None involved dared dream that this little project would attract some of the most talented and dedicated authors from countries as diverse as Canada, the US, Belgium, Portugal, Norway, Great Britain, Japan, Russia and India and from writers as disparate as Indian Holy men (Swami Supernandanda and University Deans, Frank Thayer.)
But enough dry history, let's get on with the bone chilling purpose of this 12th Annual Hallowe'en Issue of Writer's Cramp with the stories that started it all. Make yourself comfortable and make sure no parts of your body are exposed to the cold air, cover every finger and foot, lest the creature under your seat require a snack...
Frank Thayer
Ronald Carpenter
Robert G Liberty
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Ann Huseman
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Ronald Carpenter
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Sharon K. Gilbert
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Derek P. Gilbert
The Curse of St Edward’s Ghoul
The Tell Tale Heart - Next Street Over
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Robert G Liberty
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Frank Thayer
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Michelle Tercha
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Teri Lucia
On Reading the Long Dark Tea-Time
of the Soul
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Tim Lejeune
