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

Rebecca gilbert is from the UK, currently studying in her second year of an undergraduate degree at Lancaster University. She has loved reading and writing for most of her life, and hopes to one day become a teacher to share this passion with others. The Fall I wonder how Daedalus felt as he watched his sons body plummet to the ground with hot wax and feathers floating from the sun; the only temporary marks Icarus managed to create. I wonder did he mourn for his sons future? did he cry for the years Death had stolen from him or did … Continue reading Rebecca Gilbert

The Odyssey of JUDGE Santiago Burdon begins in the “City of Big Shoulders”, as Sandburg called it in his poem “Chicago”. His father named him Judge, hoping he would pursue a career in law. He had no idea his son would end up appearing in front of so many. He attended Universities in the United States and abroad, focusing his studies on Victorian Literature and Authors. Santiago’s short stories and poems have been featured in over one hundred fifty Magazines, On-line Literary Journals, Podcasts and Anthologies. He was listed in “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020” and again in 2021. … Continue reading Judge Santiago Burdon

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Washington Square Review and Floyd County Moonshine. Latest books, “Covert” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review and Open Ceilings. THE DEER AT DUSK At dusk, deer emerge from the forest. They nibble on the tenderest shoots, with one eye out for danger. These are lives. Just as we are lives. They’re mother, father, children, aunts, uncles, cousins. But, as humans, they’d be too skittish, too wary. As deer, they survive. … Continue reading John Grey

James Mulhern’s writing has appeared in literary journals over one hundred and fifty times and has been recognized with many awards. In 2015, Mr. Mulhern was granted a writing fellowship to Oxford University. That same year, a story was longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize. In 2017, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His novel, Give Them Unquiet Dreams, is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019. He was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021 for his poetry. Recently, two of his novels were Finalists for the United Kingdom’s Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Moving Forward Mornings I injected insulin into my dog and made sure she had enough water. To … Continue reading James Mulhern

Sarah Mackey Kirby grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the author of the poetry collection, The Taste of Your Music (Impspired, 2021). Her work appears in Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY, Chiron Review, Hobo Camp Review, Impspired Magazine, ONE ART, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Sarah is a teacher by trade and by joy. She and her husband divide their time between Kentucky and Ohio. https://smkirby.com/  Hole after Allen Ginsberg I. I saw the best hearts of my generation destruct under the weight of self-focus, blood-let, suspended, palpitating through the loneliness of days, looking for some numb to chill all feeling, anxious, insecure screen-squeezers … Continue reading Sarah Mackey Kirby

Born in Vienna, Austria, Christina Janousek has a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and is currently working on her master thesis at the University of Vienna. In her paper, she analyses visual and photographic discourses and metaphors in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading”. She has gained work experience at different cultural institutions (e. g. publishing houses such as Passagen Verlag and Amalthea Verlag, literature societies like the Austrian Society of Literature and a small magazine called “Zwischenwelt” of the Theodor Kramer Society). This did not only give her the opportunity to work together with … Continue reading Christina Janousek

Kat Devitt is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee whose short stories have appeared in the Tales to Terrify podcast, Books ‘N Pieces Magazine, Suspense Magazine, and other venues. To learn more about Kat, look for her on her website at https://katdevitt.com/.  TO OWN HER BODY “Can you believe I’m handing in my bachelor’s cap for a wedding band?” Alexander Courtenay, the fourth Viscount Belgrave, asked, languishing in the sunlight streaming through a bay window as he cocked up a silver hand mirror to check the crevices between his pearly white teeth. Sir James Rutherford, his nearest and … Continue reading Kat Devitt

Widely published over many years in numerous magazines, journals, anthologies and competitions Currently preparing a collection. Lives in a suburb of Preston with his wife, who’s friend, critic, muse and editor. Plays acoustic guitar averagely to her singing.                                                          OVERLOOKED POVERTY At the checkout the frail old lady, watery eyes sunk in a pale face, implies shabbiness to a bypassing world. Still she smiles. There are three items in her basket without choices, and the price is paid by unsteady hands with coins skilled in survival techniques. She is being reduced to a learning curve on subsistence levels by such … Continue reading Gordon Scapens

By Don Beukes Niles Reddick immediately demands our undivided attention right from the outset of this immersive collection of stories, whether we choose to or not, through clear descriptive writing techniques and carefully selected use of language choices,which grab our senses from the start of this creative journey. “My teen daughter screamed/she’d been bitten by a yellow fly/an annoying species that defied bug spray.” In fact, this is the central thread throughout this collection, which holds it all together as Reddick expertly sweeps us along as he introduces a myriad of colourful but also realistic and at times vulnerable characters … Continue reading REVIEW of ‘If Not for You & Other Stories by Niles Reddick