Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

Website: http://hometown.aol.com/margsimon

I’m a free lance writer/poet/artist. My work has appeared in numerous publications for two decades. Prefer speculative or genre work. I edit Star*Line and am past president of the SF Poetry Association.

In your own words, define Withersin.
A publication that showcases well written, dark or quirky stories; not a generic h/f/sf zine.

If you were a sideshow act, what would you be?
A Mime

What is your greatest non-literary influence?
Trees

Describe your most irrational fear.

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How about your most guilty pleasure?

Eating burned rib eye steak

Name the most disturbing nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.

I used to be afraid of Baba Yaga.

Do you eat meat?

If it’s charred rib eye or chicken breast

What were the skies like when you were young?
Red in day, yellow at night.

Name your favorite garden tool.
Scissors

Name your least favorite color, first job and worst job.
Chartreuse Waitress Typist

Favorite: Author, Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.
Theodore Sturgeon, A Boy and His Dog, McGarrigles, “Fields of Barley” “All Futurity wears the head of an insect.”

If you were a loaf of bread what kind would you be?
Pumpernickel

Weirdest news you have read in your local newspaper:
Ocala is the most dangerous city in the world.

Why horror?
Why not? But not the usual vampire, psycho, murderer, rapist, Freddy, etc.

What non-fiction would I like to see?
Essays about writing good speculative fiction and poetry(flash, humorous, ironic, etc.)
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