Excerpt from Jesse Bradley’s & Adam Mazer’s The Bones of Us

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authorJ. Bradley is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated writer whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals including decomPHobart, and Prairie Schooner. He was the Interviews Editor of PANK, the Flash Fiction Editor of NAP, and the Web Editor of Monkeybicycle. He is the author of the poetry collection Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books, 2009), the novella Bodies Made of Smoke (HOUSEFIRE, 2012), and the graphic poetry collection The Bones of Us (YesYes Books, 2014), illustrated by Adam Scott Mazer. He is the curator of the Central Florida reading series There Will Be Words and lives at iheartfailure.net.

 

artistAdam Scott Mazer is a Brooklyn-based illustrator, theater artist, and bon vivant.  In 2011, he co-founded AntiMatter Collective, which has produced three of his original plays: Death ValleyMotherboard, and The Tower.  The Bones Of Us is his first book.  For more, check out AdamScottMazer.com

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