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Excerpt
"...and that's when I vomited on the factory floor, my lunch mixing with the dust and the dirt and the foreman's green blood. Tears swam in my eyes, and for a second there, all the individual sounds just kind of merged into one big roar in my ears. Then they all came back. The yelling of my line mates, the beating wings of the security guards and the clanging noises of the machinery.
"Bang clash whoosh. Bang clang whoosh."
--from "Smokestacks Like the Arms of Gods"
Bio
Ben Burgis is a graduate student in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and an adjunct professor at Miami-Dade College. He is also a proud member of the Clarion West class of 2006 and the South Florida Science Fiction Society writers' workshop. These days, he spends most of his time sipping mojitos at outdoor bars by the beach and fighting off attacks by giant spiders, vampires, and lizard-like creatures. In spare moments unoccupied by these activities, he writes autobiographical work thinly disguised as fiction.
Publications
"Three Perspectives on the Role of the Anarchists in the Zombie Apocalypse," originally published in Afterburn SF and subsequently reprinted in Tales of the Zombie War, where it got the 2nd place in their 2008 contest.
"Of Rum, Madness, Thunderstorms and Prayer" in Atomjack.
Goals
200 words a day throughout the six weeks of the WaT.
