Duke LaRance is still upright and takin’ nourishment on the High Plains of Northern Montana! Saddle Up Again and Ride Told them folks I would get back up there a’fore the snow flew, ain’t it something the older we get, more and more seemingly empty promises go unkept? World is ugly, frozen and brown just patches of dirty snow punctuating a desolate moonscape all around at this outpost, deadly sheets of ice in front and in back silently covet my ankles bolting up the new alternator into the new junker today, every car I own is a, well, to be … Continue reading Duke LaRance

John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many literary journals, online and in print, since 2009. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published poetry online. PALM LEAVES STREWN Palm leaves strewn on the path before us On our way through the town to the temple. All you have to do is take my hand and walk with me. Walk with me toward the open doors of the tabernacle That emits a wondrous and warm light. Ignore the rabble who appear on either side of our road; Who hurl rotten produce and insults, make threats And harbor ill will. They do not exist … Continue reading John Tustin

Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru, and author of two novels as well as seven poetry collections. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry reviews (online and print). She was twice nominated for a Pushcart. Her latest: DO OCEANS HAVE UNDERWATER BORDERS? (Kelsay Books July 2022), WHISTLING IN THE DARK (Ciberwit July 2022), and SAUDADE (December 2022) are available on Amazon. https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/ The first time I saw black And they were very, very black. Tall, elegant, and black. My friend and I, newbies in Paris, 18 and wide-eyed. We … Continue reading Rose Mary Boehm

Fred Miller is a California writer and an author of two books. His latest is “My L.A., Poems by Fred Miller”, is available on Amazon. Over one hundred of his poems and stories have appeared in publications around the world over the past ten years. Many are available on his blog: https://pookah1943.wordpress.com IN N OUT Parked on a bench near the corner, she sat with one hand clutching a purse, the other one rocking a stroller. In the gentle mist, I came to a stop and eased out of the car. With an umbrella, I moved to her side as a … Continue reading Fred Miller

Otto is based in the great city of Liverpool and writes in his spare time. He flips between writing short stories and working on something like a novel. Most of the time he enjoys it. He loves to read. He has been published in Literally Stories, Twelve House Books’, Books n’ Pieces magazine and Bull Lit. Jack Hathaway I ought to tell you about Jack Hathaway; about how he looked, and how he was, because he was all those things that people say, and you would have liked him. It’s hard to think about him now without remembering the fire. That’s … Continue reading Otto Alexander

Bobby hosts monthly storytelling swaps at The River House in Capon Bridge, VA and a blues jam twice a month at The Barns in Berryville, VA. He also is certified to teach shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) in the monks’ Sui-Zen tradition.  Raised within the Greenwich Village/Washington Square Park “Folk Revival” of the early ’60s, Bobby has his MA from Bank Street College of Education. In addition to 20 years teaching nursery and elementary school, he has 10 years working as a play therapist/music therapist with Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Despite a lifetime of NYC cultural expansiveness, his teenages dream was to become … Continue reading Bobby Seigetsu Avstreih

Martin Ijir is a social entrepreneur, teacher, mystic, poet, social & right activist, editor, humanist and thinker. His voice had appeared in ANA Review, LangLit Journal, Rock Pebbles Journal, Azahar Spanish Magazine, Arcs Prose-Poetry Magazine,  Amritanjali Quarterly Journal among others. He is the author of the Vulture and Eeries of Silence. Winner of 2020 Arcs Prose Poetry Award, a finalist of Sentieri diversi Associazione Culturale Poetry Prize, winning  premio internationazione d’honore in 2018 and 2019, Italy. He loves walking, meditative prayer and music apart from writing. He lives in Karu, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Stolen the dew from my soul  Sweet, … Continue reading Martin Ijir

Charlie Brice won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His chapbook, All the Songs Sung (Angel Flight Press), and his fourth poetry collection, The Broad Grin of Eternity (WordTech Editions) arrived in 2021. His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net Anthology and three times for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Chiron Review, The Paterson Literary Review, The Sunlight Press, Impspired Magazine, and elsewhere. Lunch with CNN Ciabatta bread is holey, that’s why I use it. Air is a great weight-loss aid. I slather one slice with mayo, put ham and … Continue reading Charlie Brice

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 and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 37 poetry collections, 14 novels, 4 short story collections, 1 collection of essays and 7 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City. Date Rape … Continue reading Gary Beck

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