edifice WRECKED was started by Leigh Hughes and Judy Wolf as a way for us to showcase everything we love about literature and art. We love its quirkiness, the offhand remarks, the minute details that make its characters and their stories become real in our minds. We even love the little mole on its back that it wishes wasn't there.

But mostly, we love artistic freedom. We wanted to create a place where everyone has an equal chance of being published. We do not discriminate here against any genre or style or voice. We do not rely on what books tell us good writing is. We don't look for perfect three-point plot structure and 180 degree character arcs. Our only requirement is that you fully express your own creative vision and execute it in such a way that your reality becomes the only reality. We are the oft-referred to Beholder and we think you are beautiful.

Leigh Hughes - Fiction & Poetry Editor; Web Publisher

Leigh is a talentless hack who is really good at starting things but not finishing them. She enjoys writing with many cliches, adverbs, rambling run-on sentences, haphazard POV switching, and way, way, too, many, commas. She does, however, occasionally strike a peculiar favor from the gods and has had several pieces published in very highly regarded places. Seriously, if they were mentioned - you would undoubtedly be impressed. Mostly creative non-fiction, short fiction and poetry. She also has three beautiful children and a husband who loves her so much he brings tears to her eyes on a daily basis. She also lives with a cranky cat, a dog with really bad gas, and an aquarium full of fish that stinks up her son's room. Yep, she's a really lucky girl.

Wait... maybe too lucky. Therefore, this bio will self-destruct so as not to alert said gods' attention to the aforementioned perfection of her life, in five...four...three...two...

Judy Wolf - Non-Fiction/Art Editor

Judy has written and published journalistic stuff and once interviewed a one-legged bike racer dude when she was the assistant editor of a sports magazine. Then there was that summer, a couple of years ago, she spent interviewing homeless people on their lives past and present. (It's the philanthropist in her... see, she was trying to bring them together with this one guy, whom she also interviewed, who was starting a city garden for homeless people to work in and get paid and then he eventually opened his HOME to these people and his wife had cancer, oh - and he used to live in a mental hospital. Aren't people so interesting?) This article was published in a local newspaper. She has several these articles cut out and on her wall or in a file somewhere. Literarily, she just writes like a fiend and collects her rejection letters like medals. Sometimes she deletes them immediately, but other times she sends them to friends to prove how mean and cruel the world can be.

She has two brilliant kids, a dog that is very similar to Odie, a ferret, a hamster and a fish. She's learned that when you don't feed things they die. There used to be two hamsters and two fish. She keeps a close eye on the two kids for this reason.

Michelle Garren Flye - Associate Editor, Fiction

A writer, wife, mother and now Associate Editor, Michelle Garren Flye long ago ran out of fingers and toes to count her blessings on. Upon graduating from the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Michelle tried valiantly to make a living out of her writing. However, when it became obvious that she wasn’t nosy enough to be a crime reporter, tough enough to be a political reporter and she didn’t know enough about football to be a sports reporter, Michelle gave up journalism and returned to her first love. She obtained a Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences and became a children’s librarian. Scarcely a year later, Michelle found a greater love with the birth of her first child. She’s given up on making a living at anything now and concentrates instead on loving her two fantastic sons, her wonderful husband and her writing. Two cats, six fish and a frog are peripheral.

More information about Michelle’s writing may be found at www.geocities.com/mgflye.