Issue 37

Bruce Morton divides his time between Montana and Arizona. He is the author of Planet Mort (FootHills Publishing, 2024) and the chapbook Olive-drab Khaki Blues (FootHills, 2026). His poems have appeared in numerous online and print venues. He was formerly dean at the Montana State University library. Morning Coffee I wake In anticipation Of the daily grind, Know something Is brewing. I can Smell it, hear it. The aroma is Divine, the taste, With a little cream To cut bittern

Fareed Agyakwah, also known as the author of A Child’s Poetry for Peace is an award-winning Ghanaian poet, author, children’s writer and literary eagle celebrated for his contributions to contemporary African literature- a literary voice deep-rooted in the mores, truths, and transformative rhythms of Africa. His work often weaves together the spiritual and the everyday life, breathing fresh meaning into ancient wisdom through lyrical clarity and cultural nuance. His work has

Robert Paul Allen lives on a lake near the coast of Maine. He has been a serious poet for the past ten years and has published over 50 poems. He has written two chapbooks “Between the Panes” and more recently “Full Circle” published in June 2025. He writes because he enjoys it. He enjoys it because he is keeping memories of people, places, and events alive through word pictures. Filling In the Lines When the virus arrived in our town, death dominated the news. It wasn’t just

I was born in New Zealand, and lived for many years in London and Harwich, first working as a teacher, then taking an MPhil at the Warburg Institute, and working as a research editor for the Wellesley index to Victorian Periodicals, USA. This was followed by eleven years in St Petersburg giving seminars for teachers of English, teaching adults English and writing short non-fiction and poetry. After ten years in Porto, writing poetry, memoir, and literary non-fiction, I am now

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has had over 700 poems published and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times. It coul

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction, essays and plays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his traditionally published books include 46 poetry collections, 18 novels,

George Gad Economou has a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Science, currently works as a freelance writer, and has published three novels and three poetry collections. His latest book is Smoking Rot Gut Drinking Junk (Anxiety Press). His work has appeared in various publications, including Spillwords Press, Ariel Chart, Cajun Mutt Press, Fixator Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, Outcast Press, The Piker Press, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Rye Whiskey Review, and Modern Drunkard Magazine

Leon Prescod spent two decades working as a subtitler for the BBC, before becoming co-director of Vote for Policies, a non-profit helping people make informed decisions around voting. His journalism has been published by openDemocracy, his poetry appeared in the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year anthology, and he has recently begun releasing short stories into the wild. To his surprise, he successfully gained a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. He

D. C. Martin is an emerging writer who lives in Guelph, Ontario. He hates the winter and people who don’t signal lane changes. His writing is known for its quirky, endearing characters who find themselves in highly unexpected predicaments. His stories are featured in Mobius Blvd Magazine, Meet for Tea: The Valley Review, Books & Pieces Magazine, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Blood + Honey, Exquisite Death Magazine and Infinity Wanderers. Mr. Martin teaches Grade 4 and lives with

Alex De-Gruchy is a writer, editor and narrative designer whose work has included poetry, prose, comic books, videogames, radio, music, and more. He's also the lyricist / vocalist in the rock 'n' roll band Burning Circus. For a full list of his credits to date, visit: www.alexdegruchy.wordpress.com/credits

My name is Toby, and I am an aspiring novelist, poet, photographer, and experimental filmmaker, recently graduated from university. Living in a remote village in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, and regularly spending time visiting the sea, much of my work is inspired by the enchanting power of nature, whilst exploring modern interpretations of folklore and mythology. I seek to encourage audiences to imagine our current world as one brimming with magic and potential magic. For ins

Living in Northern Ireland, David McCullough was a teacher, Educational Adviser and the Co-Author of two secondary school textbooks. Enrolling in a Poetry Course after retirement, he was surprised to find he could contribute meaningfully. There were even a few honourable mentions for poems submitted to OLDIE magazine competitions (a step up from writing sketches and parodies for end-of-term entertainment). Now a member of Sanderlings, a very supportive and skilfully

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Midnight Mind, Willow Review and the Pennsylvania Literary Journal. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the MacGuffin, Touchstone and Willow Review. CALIFORNIA HERE I COME OBIT THE COUPLE IN THE PHOTOGRAPH

Joan Hus is the pseudonym of Martine Lejeune. Martine Lejeune graduated summa cum laude in Philosophy from Ghent University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Antwerp with a thesis on speculative logic. She’s a visual artist and the author of fiction and non-fiction books. Her artist name refers to Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415), the Czech reformer who was condemned as a heretic and executed at the stake. Genetic Engineering The cashier at the checkout was a Neanderthal. Ju

Zara Lenon is an artist, poet and writer who is based in London. Currently, she is a recurring writer for The Scary Shorties Podcast on Spotify, whilst other pieces have been published in Anima Loci, Impspired Magazine, and The Anansi Archive’s sixth anthology, The Nine Lives of Billy Nightjar (2023). She has a razor-sharp eyed for detail and a weird way with words; the aim being to create vivid worlds for the reader to lose themselves in, and craft colorful, memorable charac

DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction author with hundreds of stories published internationally in print, online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC's stories have appeared in: Amazing Stories, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Lunch Ticket, Broadkill Review, Zoetic Press, and others. DC has two published collections of short stories: Stepping Up and Captured Up Close (20th Century Short-Short St

Helen M. Pugsley comes from a small town of 20 in eastern Wyoming but currently resides in Laramie. She has been writing since she was four, and has published three novels titled War and Chess, Tales from the Gishlan Wood, and The Tooth Fairy. When she’s not writing she wanders around aimlessly on the search for fruit. How Long Do You Wait to Cover a Tattoo? I knew that star was dying As soon as I saw it twinkling in the sky. I think I tattooed it on my leg To prove that it w

Houdi McCabe is a retired department store manager, now acting and writing full time. His stories have been published in both national and international journals. He mainly performs his writing at public events such as Soundwaves, Flash Fiction Armagh, Tenx9 and First Drams NI. He is a regular contributor to Northern Ireland’s premier blog Slugger O Toole under the banner Storytime with Houdi. An actor with over thirty films within his oeuvre, Houdi is currently starring in,

Mark Pearce is the author of three books: Tobias and the Isle of Justice, Specimens Under Glass, and Asylum. He has had stories published in over 80 literary journals in the United States, England, and Canada and is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and recipient of Granfalloon magazine’s “Story of the Year.” “This is not the world in which I was born …” This is not the world in which I was born, But it’s the world in which I’ll die, Somehow the kindness all drained

Fhen M. studied Writing in the Discipline, The Literature of the Philippines, and The Literature of the World at Eastern Visayas State University. His Waray poem “Uyasan” (“Toy” in English), was published in the collection Pinili: 15 Years of Lamiraw. Fhen M. has received multiple recognitions, including second place in the 1st Chito Roño Literary Awards in the Waray poetry siday category and several daily wins in the DYVL Siday Contest, a radio-based poetry competition. His

LB Sedlacek has had poems and stories published in a wide variety of journals and zines. She is the author of several poetry collections including "Unresponsive Sky" (Purple Unicorn Press), "Words and Bones" (Finishing Line Press), "The Architect of French Fries" (Presa Press), and "The Poet Next Door" (Cyberwit Press). She was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and also nominated for Best of the Net in poetry. Her short stories have won 1st place prose awards in literary

Patrick Kruth is an Irish writer whose work has appeared in Sonder Magazine, Hypertext Magazine, Impspired and has work upcoming in The Brussels Review. When not writing fiction he works as a newspaper reporter covering everything from crime to politics. His fiction is often characterised by dark, language-driven narratives that explore the lives of ordinary people, with a particular focus on rural settings and the quiet tensions that shape them.

Ramzi Albert Rihani is a Lebanese-American writer who has been writing and publishing poetry, novels, travel, and plays for several years. His poetry book “Scenes from a Dream” was published in April 2026. He received the 2024 Polk Street Review first-place poetry award. His work has appeared in several publications in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Romania, South Africa, China and India, including Chronogram magazine, Impspired, Cacti Fur Journal, Fine Lines Magazine,

Jason Ryberg is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless love letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in- residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His work has appeared in As it Ought to Be, Up the Stairca

Nelly Shulman’s prose was published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies and she has authored four collections of short stories. She is a member of The Society of Authors (UK). Another Life Their street breathed magic. Up to House Fifteen, the voices of locomotives hummed behind their backs, and the street smelled of a particular railway scent of dark railroad ties, the heated metal of rails and boiled eggs. After House Fifteen, the railway smells gave way to sweet

Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing stories, essays, and novels. His stories have been published by more than 480 different journals, magazines, and anthologies including Folio, Bryant Literary Review, and Shenandoah. He was nominated four times for Pushcart Prizes and once for inclusion in Best of the Net anthology. Terry is a retired urba

Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer. He yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight; this too may pass, yet. His novel “Crazy Like Emotion” is published by Close To The Bone. Short story collection “Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves”, and full-length poetry collections “It Is Big And It Is Clever”, “South Wales Outlaw”, “The Gutter Symposium”, “The Dark Side Of British Poetry” and “Uncivil Disobed

Ben Macnair is an award-winning poet and playwright from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. Follow him on Twitter @benmacnair. Fragility The old china cups, that your Grandmother saved for best, there is a set like that on Facebook. Free to a good home it says, but maybe a good house won't use them, only saving them for best, in the best room, which never needed hoovering, because no-one ever went in there. Like the best friends she never saw, always making everyone else se

JoyAnne O'Donnell is authorett of five poetry books included Winds of Time, Spring & Summer's Veil, Palace of Enchanted Day and Night, Heaven's Medal and Summer In The Breeze.

Tina Wingham is an Australian horror and dark fiction author known for her emotionally charged storytelling and unsettling, atmospheric worlds. Drawn to the shadows of human nature, she explores fear, grief, survival and the fragile line between reality and nightmare. Her work blends psychological tension with vivid, cinematic detail, inviting readers to feel every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of dread. The Eventual Return The scratching started like clockwork