Authors, poets, and artists featured in this issue…
Art:
Autumn
Loralee Clark’s artwork is featured on the covers of all of her poetry books: Solemnity Rites (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025), Delighting in “To Be”: Poems for Writers (Bottlecap Press, 2025), A Harmony in the Key of Trees: A Healing Myth (Dancing Girl Press, 2025), and Neolithic Imaginings: Mythic Explorations of the Unknown (Kelsay Books, 2026). Her work is also featured in Pictura Journal, Barely Southern Review, Fine Lines, and Neon & Smoke. Clark resides in Virginia.
Short Story:
In My Skin
Timothe Davis is a Dallas-based author. He loves jazz and EDM and believes his horoscope is correct 50% of the time. His work can be seen or is forthcoming in Story Sanctum, The Brussels Review, and Flash Fiction Magazine, among others.Robert Martin,
Poem:
My Garden
Lindsay Fiore lives in Vancouver, BC.
- Instagram: @lindsayfiore0
Short Story:
The Dead Man’s Journal
Helena Grey grew up in the Midwest and graduated from a prestigious boarding school where she studied creative writing. She later became a teaching assistant for the course. Currently, Helena is attending college in Indiana while pursuing her aspiration of becoming an author.
Flash Fiction:
Incident Report
Lise Hosein is a queer mixed-race writer based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Canadian Art, Magenta Magazine, and as part of CBC Arts. She likes to explore the estrangement we feel within our bodies and the acute horror embedded in our ordinary systems.
Poem:
Beasts
Christine Jackson grew up in New England. She is retired from her day job as a professor of literature and creative writing at a South Florida university. She continues to clock in on a lifelong night shift writing poetry. Her work appears in an array of online journals, including The Ekphrastic Review, Verse-Virtual, South Florida Poetry Journal, Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets, and New Verse News
Art:
Hielope
Tanamá Kao, a chameleonic underground comics fixture with several banned works under his belt, is an award-winning poet and visual artist. His writings have been published in Agates, Taste of the Witches, Queer Home of Craft, fruitslice, Mississippi Poetry Journal, Lake Country Journal, and THE LIFE MODEL. His creations have been exhibited at the Paramount Center For The Arts, MIA, Plains Art Museum, and Great River Arts. He’s the lead writer for the Rasputin Catamite graphic novel and the creative force behind Catnose: “Fighting Inner Demons For Fun And Profit”.
- Website: tanamakao.com
Poem:
Why the Scarecrow Loves October
LindaAnn LoSchiavo, a native New Yorker and award-winner, is a member of British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild. Releases: Messengers of the Macabre: Hallowe’en Poems (Audience Askew, Oct. 2022); Cancer Courts My Mother (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025), and Vampire Verses (Twisted Dreams Press, 2025).
- BlueSky: @ghostlyverse.bsky.social
- Substack: @GreenwichVillagePoet
- Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/lindaann_loschiavo
Art:
The Time Keeper
Matthew McCain is an author and fine artist with three of his novels reaching the top #10 on Amazon Kindle Unlimited. His fine art paintings can be found all around the world, from L.A. with Sharon Osbourne and Alice Cooper’s Teen Youth Rock Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He’s currently represented by the Bilotta Gallery in Florida.
Poem:
Cicada
Dustin Miller is a queer poet and arts leader based in Dallas. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beyond Queer Words, Beyond Words Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, and the Beyond Words anthology METAMORPHOSIS. His work often moves through desire, language, embodiment, queer self-recognition, and the strange negotiations between intimacy and selfhood.
- Instagram: @dmiller.dallas.
Art:
Guilt Trip 2
Anthony Nzekwu is an artist from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Art:
The Legendary Whip-Poor-Will
Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine. He creates oil paintings, illustrations, ceramics, and graphic novels. His art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Maine.
- Instagram: @donald.patten
Short Story:
Only Dead Men Hear the Dying
Cash Rabley—a junior at Western Michigan University—is studying English literature and language. He’s worked for Third Coast as an editorial intern and Inlandia as a teen editor. When Cash isn’t working for a journal or on something for his classes, he enjoys reading horror novels and poetry. Cash’s own poetry has been published in The Blank Quill and The Laureate, and he has fiction forthcoming in a Beyond Words anthology.
Art:
The Privacy of Pain 2
Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has had over 700 poems published and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.
Poem:
The Lightkeeper
Martin Tsien was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He was raised in New York City. His work has appeared in Constellations, Muhlenberg Poetry, and SNFL Poetry Open Mic. His poem, “Block Party, Rego Park was featured on WNYC Morning Edition.
Poem:
True Blue
Chenyi Wu is a writer from Texas. Wu has garnered national writing recognition with a Silver Medal in Poetry from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and 28 regional awards. Wu has self-published four poetry anthologies, one of which has been accepted into the Library of Congress’s permanent collection, and one short story chapbook. Wu has been published by Creation Magazine, the Moonstone Arts Center, Apprentice Writer, LEVITATE, and more.
Cover Art:
Ingolstadt with Sharpie
Art:
Abracadabra
Robin Young is based in Borrego Springs, California, and works in mixed media focusing on Collage and contemporary art-making. Her focus on collage art using vintage magazine clippings, masking tape, wallpaper, jewelry, feathers, foil, etc. allows her to delve deeply into the whimsical and intuitive.