Manga Art and Poetry come together in Kyle Hemmings "Down Moon Girl"

  Down Moon Girl (a word play on the Anime series, Sailor Moon) is a collection of hybrid poetry/prose/flash fiction inspired by Manga art. The pieces revolve around young women in love or in solitude, shape-shifting between reality and fantasy. The setting is an alternate-reality Tokyo or New York. There is a strong flavor of magic realism running throughout many of the pieces. But no matter the heroes or anti-heroes, the princesses or the street girls, an attempt is made to expose the bruised heart of desire.

The author's motivation to write these short pieces was his fascination with characters from more than one world--one foot in the real, the other in the surreal.  He wanted to combine urban fantasy with pop culture, to imbue flash fiction with a seductive romanticism, to create elusive and seductive characters, who become more than just pen and ink, who find a new life inside the reader. 

Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. His work has been published in Elimae, Nano Fiction, Thunderclap Press, DeComp, Wigleaf, Juked, and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks: Cat People (Scars Publications, 2011), Avenue C (2010), Hojo Boy (TenPagePress, 2011), and Tokyo Girls in Science Fiction (NAP, 2011). He has become a recent fan of Manga.