It's not just for aliens anymore... it's not just a short story by Gerard Daniel Houarner (although originally, it WAS)... Circles in the Hair (CITH) is a New York City writers' group founded in 1990.

story about CITH at iUniverse.com, an on-demand publishing Web site worth checking out not only for its publishing services, but for its reporting on authors and new ideas, the publishing industry, and loads of tips on writing. -->

Nestling comfortably in the CITH.org site is the Web dwelling of Space & Time, one of the longest-lived small press magazines, bringing speculative fiction of all stripes to print since the early 70s? late 60s? (Help me out here, it's about as old as I am -- anyway, people were wearing beads and bellbottoms for the FIRST time back then.)

The following are the active members of CITH, in some cases with links to stories, biographies, homepages etc.