brief author bio
J. Michael Dashiell has written 2 novels, 98 short stories, 30 new poems, 10 essays and 1,247 jokes. He’s had 8 short stories published: Most recently, Alien (underground) appeared in the December 2008 print edition of CC&qamp;D now published in book anthology, Bending the Curve. A Vacation from Life (literary) was published in the November 2008 Issue #30 of Sugar Mule Literary Magazine. Chainsaws &qamp; Munchkins (humor) preceded it in the April 2008 issue of Defenestration. The remaining five stories have appeared in Word Riot, Thieves Jargon, The Circle Magazine, The Blue Review &qamp; The New England Writers’ Network Magazine.