Jack Coey is a seventy-four-year-old grandfather of two who has experienced most of life’s events, and survived them not only, but without hurting anyone else which he would say was a good life. Writing satisfies him like nothing else and he works as a cashier to eat and writes to love.  Do Us Part There was an old woman and a nurse in a room. The old woman sat in a chair holding a cane. There was a tray in front of her with a partially full plate. The nurse bent over and wiped her face with a napkin. The … Continue reading Jack Coey

Leah Mullen is a New Jersey native who’s been living in the UK since 2003. She is a secondary school English teacher and advocate for the arts and humanities subjects. You can find her work in Five on the Fifth and an upcoming issue of Molotov Cocktail, and she has been shortlisted for several flash fiction awards, including the Bridport Prize. Coney Island Ghosts Beth worked the Coney Island Cyclone the summer she turned twenty five.  Old enough to know better, to have to smoke alone outside the breakroom because really smoking’s only for boomers; young enough to secretly enjoy … Continue reading Leah Mullen

Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry; nominated for the 2023 Dwarf Stars award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association; winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year; selected as a Judge for the Soundwaves Poetry Contest of Northern Ireland 2023. Her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020” and “2021,” published by Sweetycat Press. She is the author of 16 poetry books, and 1 short story book. She lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking.  Chris lives with her husband and four cats. Her most … Continue reading Ann Christine Tabaka

My name is Hannah Madden and I have Asperger’s Syndrome. Because of that, relating to other people can be a little tricky, so growing up I read books and watched films to understand how people thought and how those thoughts related to their actions and who they were. Stories have also been a tool which I have used to better understand myself. Through stories, whether I’m writing them or reading them, I have found and explored characters who are similar to me and/or are struggling with the same things I am. Reading and writing is how I figure out what’s … Continue reading Hannah Madden

My stories have appeared/are forthcoming in The Signal House Edition, 3:AM, La Piccioletta Barca, Ink Sweat & Tears, Sky Island Journal and in the US/UK journal LITRO.  When No-one Understands You But You I heard there once lived in Norfolk a philosopher whose philosophy was so strange that absolutely no-one understood it apart from himself. Like one of those indigenous tribes, whose last remaining speaker lives on a mountain somewhere with their elder sister, and no-one can speak their near-obsolete tongue. He taught his philosophy in a local college, and the classes always started out big, all the kids loud … Continue reading Arthur Mandal

American-born, CR Green, now lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she writes mainly poetry. This year, at 77, she has been doing the Hagley Writers Institute’s year-long course. Her poetry has been published recently in Silver Birch Press and Poetry Distillery. The Night I Met Groucho Marx The night I met Groucho Marx happened because of my husband, Tom, when he was working on his Masters Degree in Los Angeles. He had gotten a job as the Stage Manager at a famous club in Hollywood called The Troubadour. His job included doing the lights and sound. This was the early 70s … Continue reading CR Green

Bev McLeish is an emerging writer from a small town north of Toronto, Canada. She has undergraduate degrees in Psychology, English, and Herbalism, living many lives both inside and outside the corporate world prior to publication. Now, she dedicates her time to family and writing stories that illuminate.  Burning Rome Thick trees crowded the road and heavy clouds smothered both moon and star. The air stood as if nature held its breath. Every scuffle of my feet insulted the quiet. I doused the torch and surrendered to black. The night blindness brought memories of my fright when I first ran … Continue reading Bev McLeish

Dr. Anissa Sboui is a University teacher and poet from Sousse, Tunisia. She is the writer of six volumes: Rebirth (2018), Transcend (2019), Number One (2020), The Co-Avid Breath (2021), Hurricane (2022), Halcyon and Screaming Earth (2023). She wrote three short stories: “The Moody Bookworm”, “Alone” and “Coincidence” along with three volumes in Arabic. She also produced two books titled Literary Reflections and Representations: A Series of Critical Essays (2022) and ‘Hurrying Truth’ in the Poetry of Anne Sexton (2023). On Being Brought from Sub-Saharan Africa to Tunisia I see the orchestrators of wars Weaving the same cloth of bloodshed The same pants of occupation The same dress of lies Of tricky donations International gatherings Global meetings … Continue reading Anissa Sboui

Ken Gosse generally writes light poetry using simple language, meter, and rhyme in verses filled with whimsy and humor. First published in The First Literary Review–East in November, 2016, his poetry is also online with Academy of the Heart and Mind, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Home Planet News, Spillwords, Impspired, and others. He is also in print anthologies from Pure Slush, The Coil, Truth Serum Press, Peking Cat, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, he and his wife have lived in Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Germany, Virginia, and now in Mesa, Arizona over twenty years with two or more rescue dogs … Continue reading Ken Gosse

Joseph Farley has had 11 books and chapbooks of poetry published including Yellow Brick Pilgrim, Longing For The Mother Tongue, Her Eyes and Suckers.  He is also the author of a novel, Labor Day, and two story collections, For the Birds, and Farts and Daydreams. Birds of a feather I don’t want to be the one To call you a fool. It would sound odd Coming from me. I have been a fool For so long It’s second nature. The best I can do Is welcome you With open arms And walk beside you, At a safe distance, Just in … Continue reading Joseph Farley