Five diverse writers cover the same theme with wildly different takes on it. Horror, urban fantasy, lesbian romances, and contemporary fiction wrap up in the nebulous aspect of…smoke.
Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin is author of the horror novel Snare plus short speculative fiction that has appeared in various publications and anthologies. Her poetry has been published in Dust Poetry Magazine, October Hill Magazine, Ovunque Siamo, Blue Unicorn, Crow & Cross Keys, Honeyguide Literary Magazine, The Field Guide Poetry Magazine, Ephemeral Elegies, The Orchards Poetry Journal, The Poet, Writing In A Woman's Voice, Grasslimb Journal, Poppy Road Review, Mirror Dance, Third Wednesday, Connecticut River Review, Corvus Review, Poetry Quarterly, Shadow Road Quarterly, Rose & Thorn Journal, Golden Sparrow Literary Review (where she was a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee), and Piedmont Literary Review.