Usually we announce updates to our main website here as soon as they are put up. Thanks to some trouble logging into the MySpace account, we haven't been able to do so in the last two weeks or so. But, that doesn't mean there haven't been any updates.

In the mean time we have added new brief bio information about three of our contributors. Please visit our main website, if you haven't already, to find two fresh short story extracts by Andrew Wolter and Nickolas Cook and a brand new poem by Misty Lackey.

Our main website has once again been updated with information about one of the contributors to our upcoming first issue. This time it's about writer Jeffrey Buford. Head over to our main website to check out the article and a short excerpt from one of his stories.

Please visit our main website to find out more about Mark A. Mihalko. His poetry will be featured in the upcoming premiere issue of The Ashen Eye. To read his short biography and one of his poems, titled "Torment", please click here.

After a short silence, our main website has been updated. This time it features information about fiction and non-fiction writer Lawrence R. Dagstine, including an excerpt from his eerie short story "The Ghost Painter". To Read the full article, please click here.

Information about one of our fiction contributors, Charlotte Emma Gledson, has been added to our main website. To read it, including a brief excerpt from her short story "The Boys Night Out", please click here.

As the release date of the premiere issue creeps ever closer, we thought it was time to share the complete list of the contributions that will grace its many pages. Here's what you can expect to find in the first issue of The Ashen Eye (in no particular order):



Fiction



Warm Milk – Barry Wood

A Town Built on Dreams – David Price

Petrifaction – David Byron

Karma – Nickolas Cook

Insomnium – Jeffrey Buford

Emily and the City – Wayne Blackhurst

Family Matters – Troy Barnes

Puppeteer – Andrew Wolter

King James Version (Abridged) – Lorne Dixon

The Boys Night Out – Charlotte Emma Gledson

A Fire Goeth Before Him – Debra Leigh Scott

Sex and Rot in the Afterlife – Jim Kelley

The Ghost Painter – Lawrence R. Dagstine

Patience – Ben Eads

Sticky Floor – William Couper



Poetry



Crescent City/Ode to my Beloved New Orleans – Aquilla Rage

Ancient Cults of Vice – Alexis Child

Curtains – Phillip Stecco

The Eater – Greg Schwartz

The Faces – Richard H. Fay

His Legend Secure – Mark Mihalko

Bones and Letters – Misty Lackey



Artwork



Caleb Morgan – Cover artwork & in-depth article

To find out more about writer, poet, and artist Richard H. Fay and his work, please visit our main website. Some of his poetry will appear in the upcoming issue of The Ashen Eye. The article contains a brief biography and another one of his poems.

We have just posted an excerpt from the disturbing short story "Patience" on our main website. This story will appear, in full, in the upcoming first issue of The Ashen Eye. Accompanying the excerpt is a brief biography about the author of "Patience", and host of the excellent "Dark Fiction Spotlight", Ben Eads. Click here to view the article.

The last decissions on the premiere issue have been made, all submitters have received word, and, as of the first of April, we’ve started reading for issue two! Read all the details on our main website.

Please take a moment to visit our main website and read the fresh new excerpt from the hilariously disturbing short story "Sex and Rot in the Afterlife". It’s written by Jim Kelley, who can also be found on MySpace, and will appear in the first issue of The Ashen Eye.