You remember this alumni of An Honest Lie, C.B. Calsing from the home of all things blues and jazz! C.B. brought us a look at the faith of belief with “Gran’s Prophecy” in An Honest Lie, Volume 1: Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child. C.B. now shows us that death is not a boundary in “Martina Gets the Last Word” available October 31, 2010 in An Honest Lie, Volume 2: Delusions of Insignivficance. Get to know more about C.B. in her exclusive interview with the Junior Editor from Open Heart Publishing by clicking her picture below!

An excerpt fom “Martina Gets the Last Word” by C.B. Calsing:

After reading a good chunk of it, I couldn’t help but realize how right I’d been about her mental state… Jesus. What Martina wrote in that journal… I’m surprised she died of cervical cancer and not brain cancer. I started to doubt even the good stuff about her. I looked at the clock. Nearly noon. I decided to go to the corner store and get a roast beef po-boy for lunch. I threw the journal on the bedspread, dressed, and left. When I came back, I sat down at the table to eat. The journal lay there now. I knew I hadn’t moved it. Something was going on. I eyed it as I ate, but it just sat there looking like a plain old diary: nothing special about it at all.

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C.B. Calsing was born and grew up in the small Central Coast town of San Luis Obispo, California. As a child, she spent long hours composing stories and plays. Half-way through her junior year in high school, she left to attend Cuesta Community College, where, after a few years of study, she received her associate of arts degree with honors. Following that, she transferred to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. There, she completed her bachelor of arts in English. She took a year off, traveled to Indonesia and Ireland, and then decided to return to school to become a certified English teacher, which she did. In 2002, fresh out of her studies, Mrs. Calsing and her future husband moved to New Orleans, where she began her career in education. In 2004, they married. Following her evacuation from Hurricane Katrina, Mrs. Calsing returned to New Orleans and began her master of fine arts degree in creative writing, fiction, at the University of New Orleans. She completed that in 2009. Now, she teaches middle school English, edits for a prominent Ebook publisher, and writes when there is time. “To Wade Alone,” a story from her unpublished collection All Along the Pacific, took second place in the On the Premises “First” contest in June 2009. Other work has appeared in college literary journals, guerrilla zines, and on Web sites, such as Crossedgenres.com. “Martina Gets the Last Word” will be available October 31, 2010 in An Honest Lie, Volume 2: Delusions of Insignivficance. Her two favorite genres to write are historic and science fiction because both allow her to visit other worlds. If she has any free time, Mrs. Calsing takes care of her old car, her old house, and a brood of chickens.