Michael A. Armstrong was born 1956 in Charlottesville, Va., and raised in Tampa, Fla. He moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1979, and has lived in Homer, Alaska, since 1994. He has a Bachelor of Arts in humanities from New College of Florida and a master of fine arts in writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. He also attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop. He has written two post-nuclear apocalypse novels, After the Zap and Agviq. He also wrote The Hidden War. His most recent published novel is Bridge Over Hell (Perseid Press). His short fiction has been published in Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, Fiction Quarterly, and many anthologies, including several Heroes in Hell collections. Michael has worked as a field archaeologist, a technical writer, and an instructor of composition, creative writing, and dog mushing. Since 2003 he has worked as a reporter for the Homer News. He lives in the hills above Homer in a home he built with his wife, Jenny Stroyeck, a partner in the Homer Bookstore. He and Jenny play in Shamwari, one of Homer’s African marimba bands. They share their lives with Princess Leia, an enormously cute labradoodle.
Poets in Hell
The best, the worst, and ugliest bards in perdition vie for Satan’s favor as poets slam one another, Satan’s Fallen Angels smirk up their sleeves, and the illiterati have their day. Find out why the damned deserve their fates as Hell’s hacks sink to new poetical depths! The first Bible writer drafts a deal with the Devil. Attila the Hun learns his punishment’s just begun. Mary Shelley and Victor Frankenstein make a monstrous mistake. Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp get their unjust deserts. Hell’s Undertaker goes on holiday. The Damned Poets Society slams away. A nameless soul shows Dorothy Parker that fame is a bitch.
In the underworlds, injustice always reigns: Join us and our damnedest poets for the crookedest poetry festival in perdition where language comes to die and no rhyme goes unpunished.
Words – Chris Morris
Seven Against Hell – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Reunion – Nancy Asire
Hell-hounds – Bruce Durham
The Kid with No Name – Jack William Finley
All Hell to Pay – Deborah Koren
Poetic Injustice – Larry Atchley, Jr.
When You Gaze Into an Abyss – Matthew Kirshenblatt
Pride and Penance – Tom Barczak
Grand Slam – pdmac
Undertaker’s Holiday – Joe Bonadonna and Shebat Legion
Red Tail’s Corner – Yelle Hughes
Faust III – Richard Groller
Tapestry of Sorrows and Sighs – Bill Snider
Haiku d’État – Beth W. Patterson
A Mother’s Heart – Bill Barnhill
We the Furious – Joe Bonadonna
Damned Poets Society – Michael H. Hanson
All We Need of Hell – Michael A. Armstrong
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Rogues in Hell
Hot on the heels of Lawyers in Hell, the New Hell Sinday Times bestseller, comes ROGUES IN HELL… The war heats up, Satan antes up, and rogues go adventuring as Hell’s landlord faces off with Heaven’s auditors. Veteran Hellions sin again and new writers fall from grace: Shirley Meier, Bradley H. Sinor, and Michael Z. Williamson.
Babe in Hell – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Which Way I Fly is Hell – Janet Morris
Downtown Run – Nancy Asire
Madly Meeting Logically – Michael A. Armstrong
Library Redux – Sarah Hulcy
A Hatful of Dynamite – Deborah Koren
Colony – Bruce Durham
Searcher – Edward McKeown
The Miraculous Roadside Attraction – Jack William Finley
BDA – Richard Groller
Hell Road Truckers – Michael H. Hanson
If Necessary – Bradley H. Sinor
Pursued by the Tauwu – Shirley Meier
Ragnarok & Roll – Larry Atchley, Jr.
Scent of a Weapon – Bill Snider
Showdown at Brimstone Arsenal – John Manning
The Place of Fear – David L. Burkhead
Chasing the Key – H. David Blalock
A Hard Day at The Office – Michael Z. Williamson
An Unholy Grail – Julie Cochraine
Battle of Tartaros – Chris Morris
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Lawyers in Hell
Heaven lays down the law and Hell gets more hellish as the greatest shared universe of all time makes its malevolent return. Souls you hate to love and souls you love to hate reunite for Lawyers in Hell, in twenty-two infernal tales from the underworlds, where Injustice must be served.
Story list:
Interview with the Devil – Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Tribe of Hell – Janet Morris
The Rapture Elevator – Michael Armstrong
Out of Court Settlement – C.J. Cherryh
Revolutionary Justice – Leo Champion
Tale of a Tail – Nancy Asire
And Injustice For All – Jason Cordova
Measure of a Man – Deborah Koren
The Adjudication of Hetty Green – Allan F. Gillbreath
Plains of Hell – Bruce Durham
The Register – Michael H. Hanson
Island out of Time – Richard Groller
Appellate Angel – Edward McKeown
With Enemies Like These – David L. Burkhead
The Dark Arts – Kimberly Richardson
Heads You Loose – Michael Z. Williamson
Check and Mate – Bradley H. Sinor
Disclaimer – John Manning
Orientation Day – Sarah Hulcy
Remember, Remember, Hell in November – Larry Atchley, Jr.
Theo Khthonios – Scott Oden
Erra and the Seven – Chris Morris
Truck Stop Earth
Read about the mother of all alien bases! The big one, the mega-base, the center of the Alien Occupation Government: the headquarters, the brain, the nerve center, the absolute pinpoint big base, is right here on Earth, just outside Della, Alaska. Forget Roswell. Forget Machu Picchu. Forget Stonehenge and Tikal and all those alleged alien bases -- abandoned, every one of them. This is the big one, right here on Planet Earth, right now, the source of all the world's troubles, the whole solar system's troubles. Right here. Finally, the unflinching truth about aliens on Earth is exposed in Truck Stop Earth, as told by an alien abductee to award-winning reporter, Michael A. Armstrong.
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