Jared Axelrod is a founding member of the daily flash-fiction website, 365 Tomorrows, and the writer and producer of two science-fiction podcasts, The Voice Of Free Planet X and the serial Aliens You Will Meet. His work has been published in Escape Pod, Neometropolis, and in the anthologies Triangulation: End of Time and Salt. In addition to his writing credits, Jared is an award-winning illustrator and recently provided the illustrations for Mur Lafferty's novel Planning For Keeps. Jared has also been a circus performer for nearly ten years and is a scholar of circus and sideshow history. Recently, Jared has been using his costume and sculptural expertise designing and building puppets for live shows of Aliens You Will Meet. He is not domestic. He is a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.