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Shirley Gothen

A Short History

Since joining on 30/11/99, Shirley has published 11 works. STRANGERS STRANGER THAN YOUR FACE remains to a work that the Very Bad Staff can't forget. Although it's both extremely puzzling and didactic, we like to think of it as the worst produced by a sane human mind since Grandpa Gothen led the family into a 30 day foray to the land of poetry during the summer of '37. However, we kind of like the quaint feeling we get when reading DEVILS YEARN BUT MY HEART MORESO.