Eric Robert Nolan’s reporting, commentary, and creative work have been featured throughout 46 print and online publications in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Australia and India.  These include Newsday (New York State’s third largest newspaper and America’s 10th largest), The Roanoke Times (Virginia’s third largest newspaper), The Free Lance-Star, The Daily Progress, The Galway Review, Every Day Fiction and Quail Bell Magazine.   Eric’s writing and photography were also selected for ten anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books between 2013 and 2021. He is a past editor for The Bees Are Dead, and was a nominee for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology. His … Continue reading Eric Robert Nolan

Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications. Most recently, my collection “In Absentia,” was published in August 2021 with Silver Bow Publishing.  Free She is free sitting in the convertible relaxed in the swift breeze of sixty mile per hour rushes. Trusting with every element of a life she offers to him she smiles eyes closed as her strands float. When … Continue reading Fabrice Poussin

Robert Fleming lives in Lewes, DE. Published in United States, Canada, and Australia. Member of the Rehoboth Beach, Eastern Shore, and Horror Writer’s Association. 2022 winner of San Gabriel Valley CA broadside-1 poem, 2021 winner of Best of Mad Swirl poetry and nominated for Pushcart Prize by Ethel Zine and FailBetter and double nominated for best of the net by Devil’s Party Press. Follow Robert at https://www.facebook.com/robert.fleming.5030 the history of one self-endangered species cave you with a wood club pump breast milk for a paystub march of the male monarchs sweat life by check marks rise republic spit transmits plague … Continue reading Robert Fleming

Satabdi is an ex professor, a bilingual poet and author. Born in Calcutta and living with neighbours from all walks of life, she gained experience mostly from observing them closely. Though spiritually inclined, she protests against injustices, and is drawn to the factors that determine human happiness. She is a humanist and voices her rage and grief at any form of exploitation or oppression, be it in the lowest domestic to national and international sphere. Her condemnation of poverty, racism, colour discrimination, socio-political oppression is loud and clear. She is a romantic as well as an inveterate spiritualist. Satabdi is … Continue reading Satabdi Saha

Henry is a writer, poet and mental health essayist based in Somerset in the UK. He has a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Birmingham. His poetic novella, ‘Notes from the State of OMNESIA’ was published by Impspired Press. The Trick with Gravity I’m a bird. I’m a drone. I’m the helicopter above the beach watching children write their names in the sand. I’m a microlite. I’m a fly, making Metzinger shapes. I’m a hot air balloon floating, and my head is swirling like a Turner painting. I’m a soaring seed head I’m a lonely leaf … Continue reading Henry Bladon

Nolo Segundo, pen name of L.J. Carber, 75, in his 8th decade became a published poet in over 70 online/in print literary journals/anthologies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Romania, India, and in 2 trade book collections: The Enormity of Existence [2020] and Of Ether and Earth [2021]. Recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022, he’s a retired teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia] who’s been married 42 years to a smart and beautiful Taiwanese woman. On Finding A Dead Deer In My Backyard    I saw them a few weeks ago. My wife called me, something urgent– so I left the computer … Continue reading Nolo Segundo

Jegadeesh Kumar is a student of Eastern Philosophy, Mathematics teacher, writer, and translator, raised in Southern India, now living in South Carolina, USA. He writes, both in English and Tamil, short stories, poems, and Eastern Philosophy. His work has appeared in The Prometheus Dreaming, Indian Periodical, The Academy of Heart and Mind, Spillwords, Vallinam magazine, The Piker Press, Impspired, the Defunct magazine and elsewhere. Karma Peter felt that there was something amiss in his lawnmower. Initially, it kept struggling for every ten feet and now it was difficult even to push the machine. He turned it upside down and thoroughly … Continue reading Jegadeesh Kumar

Nicolas Ridley lives in London & Bath (UK) where he writes fiction, non-fiction, flash fiction, scripts and stage plays under different names. A prize-winner and twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, his short stories have been widely published in anthologies, literary magazines and journals in the UK, Ireland, Canada and the USA. GOODBYE MISS MOROCCO Unlikely as it might seem, I was once engaged to the reigning Miss Morocco. It’s a story I like to tell whenever I’m given the opportunity. I usually open by saying — a little ungallantly — that the competition hadn’t been staged for several years. Nonetheless, … Continue reading Nicolas Ridley

Cliff Saunders is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including Mapping the Asphalt Meadows (Slipstream Publications) and This Candescent World (Runaway Spoon Press). His poems have appeared recently in The Midwest Quarterly, Book of Matches, The Wineskin, Monterey Poetry Review, New Feathers Anthology, and The Flatbush Review WHEN THE SPIDER OF LOVE DROPS BY I think of love, how it should be drowned like a spider in a drop of water. – – Maria Flook                            On dark nights love beckons from its web of silence with eyes open to the world. It looks like a control freak, a furry … Continue reading Cliff Saunders

When Nick Romeo is not at his nine-to-five occupation which is strongly situated in the STEM fields, he utilizes technology to create his art – whether it is generated in a digital form on the computer or when he is assembling recycled “spent” technology into a sculpture. His main forms of expression are 3D digital renderings, electronic music, writing, fractal generations, sculpture, and photography. Withdrawn “I am glad to see that you have your mask on sir, since several people have tried to walk in here without one this week. Please step in the line behind the red ‘X.’” “Sure.” … Continue reading Nick Romeo