Kaci Skiles Laws is a closet cat-lady and creative writer who reads and writes voraciously in the quiet moments between motherhood and managing Crohn’s Disease. She grew up on a small farm in a Texas town alongside many furry friends, two sisters, and a brother. She has known tragic loss too well, and her writing, which is often dark and honest, is a reflection of the shadows lurking in her psyche. Her work can be viewed at: https://kaciskileslawswriter.wordpress.com/ Good God I’m tired of self doubt. I let myself out when no one asks me to leave I stay when no one … Continue reading Kaci Skiles Laws

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.   City Stage She craves the innocent and their young dreams laden memories made along many a wrong turn her tentacles lay in waiting to feed an insatiable hunger. Dark in the thick of summer days damp when the air refuses to quench her thirst no star ventures to corrupt its light with her … Continue reading Fabrice Poussin

Mike Zone is the Editor in Chief of Dumpster Fire Press, the author of  Shedding Dark Places (almost), One Hell of a Muse, A Farewell to Big Ideas and Void Beneath the Skin, as well as coauthor of The Grind.  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.  New season The long hot summer careens by through a furious breeze whipping up the sands of time reflections and ravages crash test dummy drivers and passengers slamming into walls … Continue reading Mike Zone

Danny D. Ford’s poetry, illustration and photography have appeared in numerous online & print titles, including the chapbooks  ‘Raffle’ & ‘Wellbeing’ – Poems For All 2021, ‘Sunshine Junkie’, ‘Flexeril Haikus’ & ‘Slides for Alberto’ – Between Shadows Press 2021, ‘Perforated by Sirens‘ – Analog Submission Press 2020. ‘The Unfolding Head’ is co-founder & compère of Dust Your Broom open-mic night & print collective Never Kill a Rainbow, in Bergamo, Italy, where he lives and works as a teacher. http://www.theunfoldinghead.com Watch Daddy’s Pint for it is the drink of a man who will spend eleven hours a day lifting the weight … Continue reading Danny D. Ford

A recovering economics professor, Steve Slavin earns a living writing math and economics books.Five volumes of his short stories have been published over the last sixyears, but he expects that the pace will slow. The Island that Time Forgot When someone tells you, “This is a true story,” you’d probably be right to assume that they’re lying through their teeth. So, I won’t blame you if you don’t believe a word of what you’re about to read…. 1 In 1971, I made arrangements with the International Planned Parenthood Association to spend three months in Barbados, where I would study the work … Continue reading Steve Slavin

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the books combustible panoramic twists (Trainwreck Press), Pointillistic Venetian Blinds (Alien Buddha Press) and Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had numerous pieces published in various journals including Otoliths, M58, The Sparrow’s Trombone, Coven, Scud, Ygdrasil, RASPUTIN, Ink Pantry, and Synchronized Chaos. You can find links to his published work at joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com Classification Time crystals contain patterns repeat like clockwork inside underground detectors states of matter intrigue waves. Mathematical genetics solving grammatical songbirds. Common symmetry usage reduce degree of rotational elegance considered objective launch spaced transformations guide … Continue reading Joshua Martin

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, 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 and … Continue reading Ken Gosse

Lorin Lee Cary once taught Social History at the University of Toledo, wrote historical works and co-authored Slavery In North Carolina, 1748-1776 and No Strength Without Union: An Illustrated History of Ohio Workers, 1803-1980. Both won awards. His articles appeared in various journals, including Labor History. He also served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Now he creates fictional cause and effect relationships. The Custer Conspiracy, a humorous historical novel set in the present, is one result, another is the novella California Dreaming, a meta fiction venture. His fiction has appeared in Impspired, Torrid Literature, Cigale Literary Magazine, decomP magazinE, Lit.cat, Corvus Review and Short … Continue reading Lorin Lee Cary