account_circle by Joanne de Simone
Joanne is an author, dramatist and film historian. Her Judy's Dead took first prize in the Writers Digest Stage Play competition, and The Suicide Angel is currently in feature film pre-production. Her film review column appeared in The Fire Island News (1998-2004). In progress is a non-fiction novel, Songs from Under the El: Memories of Life in the Dark. Ms. de Simone extends an invitation to major animated film studios to consider her young adults book, The Metro Cats: Life in the Core of the Big Apple. Drawn to writing about precarious situations, she blends irony with fantasy in her work, along with some subtle fatalistic flirting.

Macro-Fiction

Two Ladies Under The Influence

Issue No. 167 ~ April, 2011

She takes a couple of healthy gulps. Without such completely feminine hands, her beer chugging might be considered downright unladylike.