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

Gabriella Balcom lives in Texas with her family, works full-time in the mental health field, and has loved reading and writing her entire life. She writes fantasy, horror, sci-fi, romance, literary fiction, children’s stories, and more, and loves great stories, forests, mountains, and back roads. She has a weakness for lasagna, garlic bread, tacos, cheese, and chocolate, but not necessarily in that order, and adores Chinese, Italian, and Mexican food. Gabriella has had 350 works accepted for publication, and won the right to have a novel published by Clarendon House Publications when one of her short stories was voted best … Continue reading Gabriella Balcom

Frances lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and American cat and a Greek dog. She was shortlisted for the HG Wells short story prize and is currently writing a novel. Animal Magic Beth saw the sign first. ‘Look; there’s a house for sale.’ She spoke through a mouthful of blackberries that had stained her lips an unflattering shade of purple. They’d passed a farm ten minutes ago, a shabby affair with a broken-down barn and a farmyard littered with nameless mechanical junk. Now there were only fields. ‘I can’t see anything,’ Guy said, glancing around. ‘Perhaps someone dumped the sign … Continue reading Frances Brindle

Born in Mexico, Luis lives in California and works in Los Angeles. His poetry has appeared in Blue Collar Review, Kendra Steiner Editions, Mad Swirl, Unlikely Stories, and Yellow Mama Webzine. His latest poetry book, Make the Water Laugh, was published by Rogue Wolf Press in 2021.  The Cruel The cruel will give you nothing you could use. They will gift you shoes after cutting off your feet. They will give you gloves after cutting off your hands. The cruel will give you nothing you could use. They will build you a house where you could stay. The toilets will not … Continue reading Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Kevin Brown has published two short story collections, Death Roll and Ink On Wood, and has had Fiction, Non-fiction and Poetry published in over 200 Literary Journals, Magazines and Anthologies.  He won numerous writing competitions and was nominated for multiple prizes and awards, including three Pushcart Prizes. Prison is more than this, than a slammed gate that locks you in, than walls and mesh-wire windows, watered down milk served with watered down meals, than same colored uniforms on different colored inmates, than bodies herded in stencilized existence, cuffed chaos and caged rage, knowing when to stand and stand down, than routine branded into mind and muscle, and always … Continue reading Kevin Brown

Stephen McQuiggan was the original author of the bible; he vowed never to write again after the publishers removed the dinosaurs and the spectacular alien abduction ending from the final edit. His other, lesser known, novels are A Pig’s View Of Heaven and Trip A Dwarf. WOOPS! Despite being allergic to them (their fur seemed to burrow its way into his nostrils) and overly sensitive to the foul musk that emanated from their exposed behinds – despite being convinced of their inherent wickedness since being bitten by one as a small boy – and completely undeterred by the fact that he lived in … Continue reading Stephen McQuiggan

David’s stories have appeared in Duality Books, Friday Flash Fiction, Spillwords Press and performed on Resonance FM radio (UK). He was commissioned to adapt and direct his short story ‘Into The Breach’ for the 2021 Rise of the Resistance festival, screened at Bloomsbury Theatre London, Wellcome Collection and available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzuj1-DJeSc . For several years he has worked in the public sector, mostly with homeless charities, in hostels and supported housing units. David was a founder member of punk band Vee V V (Edils Records). He finds his stories while he’s out and about, or they find him… He lives with … Continue reading David Milner

I am a 46 year old struggling writer who has been struggling for a great many years.  After 20 years working in local radio, I moved into a new career in healthcare most recently the Ambulance Service.  But in my free time, I enjoy escaping into fictional worlds and enjoy creating those worlds myself. The Chapel It was a very old building with a weird energy about it. It suggested great history, I felt something whenever I was there. I was not prone to belief in the supernatural or ghosts and goblins.  But I knew many other people were and … Continue reading Gav Skerry

Don Stoll lives in the Southern California desert. His fiction is forthcoming in KAIROS and has appeared recently in A New Ulster as well as in Tales from the Moonlit Path (tinyurl.com/y9nkpsbu), A Thin Slice of Anxiety (tinyurl.com/yfvh8m63), Eclectica (tinyurl.com/yzr2h9m9), and Jupiter Review (jupiterreview.com/issueiv). In 2008, Don and his wife founded their nonprofit (karimufoundation.org) which continues to bring new schools, clean water, and hospitals to a cluster of remote Tanzanian villages. Battle of Hastings No one could have anticipated that my grandmother would tutor William and Harry after the death of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. My grandmother had thought she would make a different kind of contribution to their upbringing. Images of vacuuming, mopping, and … Continue reading Don Stoll

Mike Zone is the Editor in Chief of Dumpster Fire Press, the author of Fuck You: A Fucking Poetry Chap, Shedding Dark Places (almost), One Hell of a Muse, as well as coauthor of The Grind.  A frequent contributor to Alien Buddha Press and Mad Swirl. His work has been featured in: Horror Sleaze Trash, Better Than Starbucks, Piker Press, Punk Noir Magazine, Synchronized Chaos, Outlaw Poetry and Cult Culture magazine. Elemental reconfiguration (for giulio) Devastation into open dreams The hardboiled ones wander against karma dogs might robots on acid an awakening prevails from psychopathic slumber ah, to truly see … Continue reading Mike Zone