I am originally from Flushing, Queens. I went to Queens College and graduated in 1973 with a B.A. in Drama & Theatre. I began writing poetry when I was in high school. Also, I am a painter, starting from about 1969. I have been published in many online magazines and some print magazines. ANCIENT MORNINGS. I am fond of seclusion of Samuel Palmer of the Ancients I recuse myself from needless misery to the point of no tunnels or trapdoors A blaze is not the essence of fire The darkness creeps like a broken merry-go-round (will break down) I suppose … Continue reading Steven Stone

Tim Law is an author of fantasy, horror, detective and general short story fiction as well as the occasional poem or two. He heralds from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge. A happily married father of three children (plus four cats and a rabbit), family is very important to him. Currently working at the Murray Bridge Library in the role of Library Manager he has dreamed since his early high school years of becoming a full-time author. Working for a library, surrounded by so many wonderful authors it is difficult not to be inspired to write. Tim … Continue reading Tim Law

Anabell Donovan (Anna Eusthacia) is a psychologist and educator dedicated to the student success of minorities and under-represented individuals. She loves words and would always like to “start where language ends.” Hidden Sullen This hill country girl had sun tea eyes and smiles, bright as miles of wildflowers on the side of the highway. She was soft blue bonnets, faint verbena violets, and the red and yellow speckles of Indian blankets. She moved to the tempo of a stroll through rolling hills, at impromptu meetings in the hallway, pickup b-ball games, traffic tickets, and Sonic drive throughs. We basked in … Continue reading Anabell Donovan

Marc Darnell is an online tutor and custodian in Omaha NE, and has also been a phlebotomist, hotel supervisor, busboy, editorial assistant, farmhand, devout recluse, and incurable brooder.  He received his MFA from the University of Iowa, and has published poems in The Lyric, Rue Scribe, Verse, Skidrow Penthouse, Shot Glass Journal, The HyperTexts, Candelabrum, The Road Not Taken, Aries, Ship of Fools, Open Minds Quarterly, The Fib Review, Verse-Virtual, Blue Unicorn, Ragazine, The Literary Nest, The Pangolin Review, and elsewhere. Isle* I was raised in small-town isolation, a town that never GREW to more than 120 people, surrounded by corn … Continue reading Marc Darnell

Dennis Moriarty is fifty-six years old and originates from London. He has lived in South Wales for over thirty years. Married with five grown-up children and grandchildren, Dennis enjoys reading, writing and walking the Welsh countryside. He has been published in The Rye Whiskey Review, Setu Bilingual, Spillwords, The Blue Nib, Our Poetry Archive, and numerous anthologies In 2017 he won the Blackwater poetry competition and has read his work at festivals and gatherings around the UK and Ireland. Urban Fox. I am an urbanite, an inner city boy Who works The graveyard shift of overflowing bins On the overflowing … Continue reading Dennis Moriarty

I promote writing as a therapy. “Got a frown, write it down, Feeling blue, a pen will do” Some of my work is deep, considered and emotive and some is daft. The performing bug has bitten me along with the writing and I am reluctant to hand back the microphone. I have a flat full of poetry, stories and compilations of undefined genres. I will be famous when I am dead (well at least for 15 minutes) John Welsh not dead just resting. January 2020 MAGNUM CART ( A SPOOF OF THE MAGNA CARTA CELEBRATIONS ) The decree of spring/summer … Continue reading John Welsh