Since 1984 Sheila Ascher and Dennis Straus (Ascher/Straus) lived/have lived in a Victorian house in Rockaway Park, NY, where they loved and worked. They made their early mark as alternative or independent fiction writers with an innovative series of what they called SPACE NOVELS (public spaces used as “bindings” for interactive, ephemeral narratives, transparent and porous between writer and reader, open to chance, with written and installation elements). Their long, underground history of creating narratives outside traditional boundaries continued through a lifetime of mutual editing and joint publishing until now. Excerpts from their new and final novel, Headless World, have been appearing in Exile (Toronto) and Your Impossible Voice, and a new excerpt, together with a brief, dual autobiography is forthcoming in the current issue of Exile. Their work includes two novels (The Other Planet and The Menaced Assassin) and a book of related short fiction (Red Moon/Red Lake), published by McPherson and two volumes of their “outward-looking autobiography/novel/philosophical journal, ABC Street and Hank Forest’s Party, published by Green Integer. The title story of Red Moon/Red Lake, originally published as a volume in the Top Stories series, will be re-issued this fall by Primary Information in a Top Stories retrospective volume. Straus will continue to work on what’s unfinished by Sheila and by the two of them together as long as he’s able.