When not writing, teaching, or astral traveling, Amy Benesch can be found relaxing in her pied a lune, sipping a glass of… is that stuff still illegal on Earth? 

Amy's story boyfriend.com is now available in the anthology "Into the Dreamlands" edited by Jason Andrew and Michael Dyer. Available at Amazon.com and Simian Publishing.

Check out Amy's story, The Crone's Tale, now archived in the Jan.-Mar.'07 issue of the online magazine Lorelei Signal.

Abducted by Aliens

       Bruce Fisher knew his parents meant well. He just wished they’d leave him alone. I mean, OK, he did keep them awake at nights screaming that he was being kidnapped by aliens; he could understand how that was annoying, interrupting their sleep pattern. But why couldn’t they just sound-proof his room or something? Why were they subjecting him to this humiliating torture? Hadn’t they sated their sadistic urges when they named him Bruce?  Read More....

Coyote's Last Adventure

      I was down at Bear’s Bar and Grill, knocking back a few, when who should come strutting in but Crow, dressed from head to toe in black, as usual. "Well, well, well," I said. "Look who’s here. Johnny Cash himself." That got a few chuckles from the few patrons who were still sober enough to chuckle, because Crow thinks he’s got the most beautiful voice in three counties, when the truth is that Bear only lets Crow sing when it’s closing time and Bear wants to clear the place out in a hurry so he can go home and get some sleep.  Read More....

Kali High

      I know, I know. Why did I do it? Right? That’s what everyone wants to know. First of all it wasn’t my idea to come to Kali High. I would have been perfectly happy to stay in public school. Well, OK, not perfectly happy. The only thing that would have made me perfectly happy is dropping out of school altogether, but, in my family, that wasn’t an option. My mother felt since I wasn’t doing well in public school we should take advantage of all the private schools that were cropping up in the wake of the school voucher program. She brought home brochures from about a hundred different schools and dumped them on my unmade bed. Read More...