Mike went to film school, has been a radio disc jockey and a dot com prospector. He has built a nuclear submarine and isn’t allowed to give blood because of that one time with the cow brains out of a vending machine in Europe. He keeps an anvil in his garage and four different currencies … Continue reading Payments by Mike Douton
Laura Alexandra Hunter indulges in creative pursuits. She occasionally tweets using the handle @LauraLxH. Ascension was published previously in Grievous Angel in January 2017. Monday Amy could feel the throb of her new tattoo on her thigh. A navy blue pencil skirt covered the anchor adorned with a carmine climbing rose. A light gauze dressing kept it … Continue reading Ascension by Laura Alexandra Hunter
Grant Longstaff is from a small, suitably dismal town in the north east of England where nothing much happens. He had no choice but to write fiction. He now lives in Glasgow. You can find him on Twitter. Abstraction was published previously by Every Day Fiction in January 2018. We are sitting on two iron … Continue reading Abstraction by Grant Longstaff
R. Daniel Lester’s writing has appeared in print and online in multiple publications, including Adbusters, Geist, Broken Pencil, Pulp Literature, Switchblade and, most recently, Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon. His novella, Dead Clown Blues, from Shotgun Honey and Down & Out Books, was shortlisted for a 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novella by the Crime … Continue reading Some Say the World Will End in Fire by R. Daniel Lester
Brynn McCall is a high school student from Denver, Colorado with an endless file of unfinished work. She loves poetry and graphic novels, and is hoping that capes soon come back into style. Find updates or future works on her blog. 1.In the beginning, there was rust and oil and her hands wrapped around her … Continue reading Genesis by Brynn McCall
Gretchen Tessmer is a writer/attorney based in the U.S./Canadian borderlands of Northern New York. She writes both poetry and short fiction, with work appearing in Nature, Strange Horizons and Daily Science Fiction, among other venues. You can find her on Twitter and Tumblr. in poorly designed seasonsI stand in smoldering fields, fidgetingwith fingers dug deepin … Continue reading Demeter’s Daughter by Gretchen Tessmer
Courtney O’Banion Smith writes, edits, and raises her sons in Houston, Texas. Her work has appeared in several print and online publications including The Ekphrastic Review and Relief. Find her on Twitter @cobanionsmith. You can also find Courtney here. What was it like? Well, we believedour little corner was everythingand like everywhere else and always would … Continue reading Around the Fire by Courtney O’Banion Smith
Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His poetry has appeared in inkscrawl, Liminality, and West Branch, among others. Find him on Twitter as @_vajra. When the water rises to the kneeto the thighwhen my calves are strong from wadingmy antlers grown in at long last bone branching like lightning seeking older earth a narrower … Continue reading Vajrakantakasalmali by Vajra Chandrasekera
The week before the spring festival, when some of us village girls were sixteen, the age ripe for the river god, my mother crawled into my bed one night, wrapped her arms tightly around my chest, and whispered, “Ingrid, if the god should pick you above the others, imagine all the honey and fish the … Continue reading All the Ugly Things by Brigitte N. McCray
I filter out onto the shining steel streets with the rest of the Machina. They glide around and across each other in a hundred different directions, with only millimeters of clearance between them. Their motion is mathematical—no space goes wasted. I don’t glide. I can’t calculate the trajectories like they do, not anymore. I can’t … Continue reading The Tin Man by Kyle Kirrin