D. R. James, retired from nearly 40 years of teaching college writing, literature, and peace studies, lives with his psychotherapist wife in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. His latest of ten collections are Mobius Trip and Flip Requiem (Dos Madres Press, 2021, 2020), and his work appears internationally in a variety of journals and anthologies.https://www.amazon.com/author/drjamesauthorpage For Therapy, I Mix Metaphors From a frozen wedge of machine-split pine,tossed on this settling fire, one frayed, martyredfiber curls back and away like a wire, thenflares, a flame racing the length of a fuse.Imagine this my innermost strand, a barely-dirttwo-track off Frost’s road less traveled, a … Continue reading D.R James

A native of upstate New York, Devin prefers the countryside over cities, and dogs and cats over humans. His interests include throwing paint on canvases, walking through the woods, and exercising. His favorite word is urchin, though he’s never used it in a sentence. He can be found on Instagram @devinjamesleonard Publications: GROVERS MILL – The Yard: Crime Blog CATCH AND RELEASE – The Yard: Crime Blog TAG – Nat 1 Publishing LLC BLOOD BROTHERS – The Piker Press ROLE WITH IT – Fiction on the Web MIND THE FIRE – Yellow Mama Webzine THE CARGO – Bare Hill Review … Continue reading Devin James Leonard

Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. His latest poetry collection, A Magician Among the Spirits, poems about Harry Houdini, is a 2022 Blue Light Press Poetry winner and has just been published.A collection of flash fiction, Presto!, will be published in 2023 by Bamboo Dart Press. Another poetry collection entitled Transcendence has also just been published by BlazeVOX Books. Theft-Proof Cars When Cosa and me boosted the car,sitting in the driveway with the doors unlocked at three in the morning,we didn’t realize it was a manual transmission.Neither of us can drive a stick. The Moviegoer Ever since the pandemic, I’ve noticed,you … Continue reading Charles Rammelkamp

Salvatore Difalco is a Sicilian Canadian poet and short story writer. Second Factor Authentication My mother started when I entered the kitchen, her blue eyes wide and bright, blue lips trembling. She stood at the sink in her familiar pink gingham apron, hands raised defensively. I hadn’t visited for a long spell and maybe looked a little different, just as things looked different in the kitchen. The pink Formica table must have been new. A red Bialetti moka pot on the stove looked fresh out of the box. And from what I could discern, my mother’s Lewy body dementia had … Continue reading Salvatore Difalco

DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction writer with hundreds of stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC’s stories have appeared in: Progenitor, 34th Parallel, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Lunch Ticket, and others. DC’s recently released collection Captured Up Close (20th Century Short-Short Stories) has two Pushcart Prize nominated stories and one nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Her first collection of stories was Stepping Up. She lives on the California coast with her wife and animals. dcdiamondopolous.com 1934 The New York winter chill disappeared when Jean entered … Continue reading DC Diamondopolous

I’ve been a passionate writer since childhood, crafting role-playing games, stories, and characters, fostering an innate passion for writing with a print media degree and experience in copywriting and screenwriting. I have written short films for local film makers and creative briefs for D&AD in the past. My work has been recognized in competitions, like being a finalist in the British Short Screenplay Competition in 2003 and the Austin Film Festival in 2020 for my feature script, “Lunar Jetman”. I am currently trying to write as much as I can, such as short stories, 2 novels and also screenplays, drawn … Continue reading Campbell Christie

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and  “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Shot Glass Journal. A POEM FIX Problem: poem doesn’t work.Cause – last line too obvious –Solution – delete the line – end on the penultimate.Cause: trite subject matter.Solution: shove the rose up some politician’s ass, send your beloved horse to the glue factory.Cause: passive languageSolution: forget the rose and the glue factory, shove your … Continue reading John Grey

Stephen McQuiggan was the star of such iconic movies as Bullitt, Papillon, The Magnificent Seven and … hold on a second, that was Steve McQueen – so who the hell is this Stephen McQuiggan guy? Hang on, I’ll Google him – turns out he’s the author of the novels A Pig’s View of Heaven and Trip a Dwarf. Trust me; I’m as disappointed as the rest of you. BORE’S BRIDLE. John O’Mara was a decent sort, everyone said so – goodhearted, honest and hardworking – it was just he was, well, a tad tedious, dull as ditchwater, a pain in the hole; everyone said so. Yawn … Continue reading Stephen McQuiggan

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her bold, textural, colorful images have appeared in various places, including, but not limited to: Bewildering Stories, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Right Hand Pointing, Stone Coast Review, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Front Porch Review, Tuck, and Yellow Mama. She uses her trusty point-and-shoot camera to capture the order of G-d’s universe, and Paint 3D to capture the chaos of her universe. Sometimes, it remains insufficient for her to sate herself by applying verbal whimsy to pastures where gelatinous wildebeests roam or … Continue reading KJ Hannah Greenberg

Andrew Scott is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of classrooms, judge poetry competitions, and have over 200 hundred writings published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones. Andrew Scott has published multiple poetry books, Snake with A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen, The Path, The Storm Is Coming, Whispers of the Calm, Searching and Letter To You, a novella, Redemption Avenue anda two books of photography, Through My Eyes and Walk Through Time. The … Continue reading Andrew Scott