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From Something Wicked:
"I received a very disconcerting message today from an author, Ferrel Moore, claiming that Electrocuting The Clowns, which we published in SW7 and credited to Doc Byron, was in fact not written by Byron but plagiarised from an anthology titled Beyond the Porch Light, published in 2003 by Mr Moore and still available on Amazon.com.

"There are few things that piss off writers or editors as much as plagiarism, but Doc Byron has gone as far as to sell this story to multiple magazines as well as publish his own eBooks with this story. A story that is not his! Needless to say this is extremely embarrasing for us, not to mention infuriating to the actual author of the work, unfortunately there is never a sure-fire way to prevent plagiarists from submitting work.

"Nevetheless this post is a public apology to Mr Ferrel Moore and retraction of Byron's claim to the story. Electrocuting The Clowns which is now credited to Ferrel Moore .
Once again our sincere apologies to Mr Moore. We have retracted all eBook copies of Issue 7, pending more discussions with Mr Moore as to whether or not he will give us permission to actually publish his story."

From Robert Moriyama at Aphelion:
"The opening is identical to the .doc file I have of the submission from "David Brookes". My sincere apologies for assuming that authors are who they say they are and that the works they submit are their own... since Aphelion is a "for the love" (or "4theluv", as ralan.com would put it), at least the only benefit Mr. Whatever-his-name-is received from publication in the 'zine was exposure. (I hope that no Aphelion readers who are also writers submitted anything TO him and had their work stolen...I will put a note in our Forum to see if anyone else needs to worry.)

"The story will be removed from the site immediately and the index amended to indicate the reason why."

And from S.E. Cox at House of Horror:
"OMG I am so sorry. I published this story in House of Horror. I will take it down right away though it was last year in one of the first issues. Again my apologies. I have only just come across this."

A big thank you to these editors for doing the right thing. Mr Boyer, Byron, Brooks, etc has more identities than the Crawling Chaos.