About the Author

Stephen J. Golds was born in North London but has lived most of his life in Japan. As editor of Punk Noir Magazine, he specializes in noir writing like his crime story collection Gone, though is heavily influenced by transgressive fiction and dirty realism. His three fiction books can be read as a trilogy or stand-alone noir novels that deal in themes of mental trauma, betrayal, and twisted love. Such includes Say Goodbye When I'm Gone, I'll Pray When I'm Dying, and Always the Dead. Golds also writes poetry with the collections Love Like Bleeding Out With an Empty Gun in Your Hand, Poems for Ghosts in Empty Tenement Windows I Thought I Saw Once, as well as Half-Empty Doorways and Other Injuries. Cody Sexton is a cover designer and the managing editor for A Thin Slice of Anxiety and founder of Anxiety Press. Digital artist and writer, he has authored Anxious Nothings, Stories Only a Mother Could Love, Too Numb to Come, Too Many Things Came to Nothing, and That Which Hell Promises to name a few. Paige Johnson is editor in chief at Outcast Press, specializing in transgressive fiction and dirty realism. She put together and featured in the short story collections Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work and In Filth It Shall Be Found. She's working on her third novel, Where Me & The Vultures Live, about a lonely Miami cam-girl who lives out of a motel. The first chapter of such appears in Anxious Nothings (Anxiety Press, 2022) alongside many illustrated, ironically erotic stories and essays. Her first poetry novella is called Percocet Summer, the first in a four-part series called Seasonal Dissociation: Poetry for Distancing Dates & Doses.

Reviews

"Raw and smarting as a flesh wound, Shadows Slow Dancing in Derelict Rooms simmers with a melancholic ecstasy that lingers long after the last mournful pages have been turned." - Chandler Morrison, author of #thighgap and Dead Inside
"Stephen J. Golds hits all the right steps and delivers a devastatingly beautiful love story. Raw, intimate, poetic, and haunting, Shadows will show you the darkest parts of the heart and bring light to every surface. This is one dance you don't want to miss."- Grant Wamack, author of Black Gypsies