Multiple contests winner for short fiction,Mehreen Ahmed is an award-winning Australian novelist born in Bangladesh.Her historical fiction The Pacifist is an audible bestseller.Included in The Best Asian Speculative Fiction Anthology,her works have also been acclaimed by Midwest Book Review,DD Magazine to name a few.She is a featured writer on Flash Fiction North and Connotation Press,a reader for The Welkin Prize,Five Minutes,a juror for KM Anthru International Prize.Her works have been translated into German,Greek and Bangla,reprinted,anthologised and have made it to the top 10 read on Impspired Magazine multiple times.

Publications/Forthcoming

Routledge,Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Core),Hawaii University Press,Michigan State University Press,ISTE,Callej.org,Journal,Learner Autonomy Special Interest group (IATEFL, LASIG),Independence,University of Kent,The Sheaf, University of Saskatchewan Press,IceFloe Press,Otoliths,Ethel Zine Journal,Minison Project: Shakespeare's Sonnet reimagined.Writer's Digest:Six sentences,Litro Magazine,Alien Buddha Press,The BeZine,Insignia Best Asian Speculative Fiction Anthology,Synchronised Chaos,Alternate Route,Coin-Operated Press,Perception Magazine(Syracuse University),October Hill Magazine,Mad Swirl,The Antonym,Oddball Magazine,Noctivagant Press,The Atherton Review,KNOT Magazine,Rogue Agent Journal: Sundress Publications,Olney/Kiss Your Darlings Magazine,Connotation Press,WordCity Literary Journal,The Talon Review(North Florida University),Quail Bell,The Literary Heist,The Hennepin Review,Five Minutes,Door is A Jar Magazine,Mōtus Audāx Press,Litterateur RW Magazine,Wink:Writers in the know Magazine,The Chamber Magazine,ELJ:Scissors and Spackle,Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal,Flash Boulevard,Ponder Savant,Phenomenal Literature,Crêpe & Penn,Flash Frontier,Ellipsis Zine,Ginosko#24,Literary Journal,BrownBag Online,The Cabinet of Heed,Shabd Aaweg Review,Peeking Cat Literary,Straylight Magazine(Wisconsin-Parkland University),Melbourne Culture Corner,Cogito Literary Journal,Breathe Everyone Magazine,Literati Magazine,Active Muse,Dreaming in Fiction,Anti-Heroin Chic,Mono,LoveinthetimeofCovidChronicle,Empyrean Literary Magazine,Unpublished Platform,Wellington Street Review,Nailpolish Stories,Setu Bilingual,Impspired Magazine,Writers and Readers'Magazine,PIne Cone Review,KREAXXXION Review,Thorn Literary Magazine.3 Moon Magazine,Merak Magazine,Sage Cigarettes,The Bombay Review,FlashBack Fiction,Down in the Dirt, CC&D,Nymphs,Portand Metrozine,Academy of Heart and Mind,Creativity Webzine,Mojave Heart,The Piker Press,Kitaab,Nthanda,CommuterLit,Angel City Review,Paper Djinn,FreeFlashFiction,Cafe Dissensus,Adelaide Literary Magazine,Scarlet Leaf Review,Terror House Magazine,The Punch Magazine,ArcherLiterature,Furtive Dalliance,Flash Fiction North,Storyland Literary Review,Cosmic Teapot Publishing, BridgeHouse Publishing and more.

Awards/Accolades

Drunken Druid's Editor's Choice,2017(The Pacifist)

Nominated for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction,2021(Gatherings)

First Place,Academy of the Heart and Mind,May Flowers contest 2022 (The Phases of the Moon)

One of the winners,Waterloo Festival,May 2020(Dolly)

Stream-of-Consciousness Challenge,Cabinet-of-Heed,Drawer Four,April 2020 (Black Mirror)

Finalist,Adelaide Books NY for Fourth Adelaide Literary Award contest,February 2020 (Flower Girl)

Honourable Mention in the Weavers of Words contest,Unpublished Platform,March 2022 (Silent Bleat)

Winner of Author Shout Reader Ready Silver Award for fiction, 2019 (The Pacifist)

Nominated for the Publication of the Month,Spillwords Press April/May 2018(Waheed Murad)

Nominated three times for botN,2020 (Interlude,Lungs,Ylem)

Nominated for Pushcart,2020(Ylem)

Writer's Choice Best of CafeLit 8, 2019(Bats Downunder)

AudioBooks

The Archer-Jingwei,February,2022

The Archer-Lost Languages and The International Mother Language Day, February, 2022

Pressfuls Digipress-The Moon and The Magic Divinity Vol 1,January, 2021

Oddball Magazine-Lungs, April, 2021

Immortal WorksThe Portrait, August, 2018

ListennotesThe Portrait, August 2018

Bewiservise-The Pizzazz, May 2020

Cosmic Teapot Publishing-The Pacifist, September, 2017

Boomers On Books-The Pacifist, Youtube,August,2021

SweetyCat Press-Rain and Coffee,Youtube, September, 2020

FlashBackFiction-East Bengal 1971,May,2020

Reedsy-Juliet's Song,Youtube,September,2021

Flash Fiction Frontier-Blue, Grey and Lavender,Youtube,June,,2020

Peeking Cat Literary-Chasing a Dream, Podbean, December,2021

Ivoox: The Portrait, August, 2018

Talks

Radical Books and Politics with Dr.Maria Estrada,2021

Boomers on Books with Vince Stevenson,2021

Siren Radio with Steve Cawte University of Lincoln, 2021

Trisha Mckee,2020

Raised in Alabama, AJ lives on four acres in southern Arizona with her husband and her Maine coon mixes, Rory and River. Though she works in a busy medical office, she finds time in the predawn hours to write and craft. Rory and River help with that; if her insomnia doesn’t have her up dark and early, they will.

AJ is active in medieval reenactment and is just as comfortable with a rapier in hand as she is with a pen. She also enjoys costuming and makes all her own historical garb and cosplay costumes. AJ likes to spend quiet nights at home when she can steal them, but she can often be found camping with chosen family or going to reenactment events or pop culture conventions.

On October 7, 2020, AJ and the other authors of the Wicked Souls anthology made USA Today history as the first all-reverse-harem anthology to make the USA Today Bestseller List!

Catherine A. MacKenzie escapes from her mundane world by writing poems and short fiction most women can relate to. Although she writes all genres, she invariably veers toward the dark. Her late mother once asked, "Can't you write anything happy?" (She can!)

Cathy has been published "traditionally" in numerous print and online publications. She has self-published several short story collections, books of poetry, and children’s picture books. Her debut novel, WOLVES DON'T KNOCK, was published in June 2018. MISTER WOLFE, the second in the stand-alone series, was published in 2020. She hopes to finish MY BROTHER, THE WOLF in the near future.

MY HEART IS BROKEN (IT NEEDS FIXING), a book of poetry memorializing her late son Matthew, who died of a rare heart cancer in March 2017, was published in March 2020, the three-year anniversary of his death. She hopes it might help other grieving parents who suffer as she does. BROKEN HEARTS CAN'T ALWAYS BE FIXED (published in March 2022) is the second book in his memory. She says it'll be the last, but who knows, right?

Cathy divides her time between Halifax and West Porters Lake, Nova Scotia.

Her amazing, gorgeous grandchildren provide much joy and inspiration.

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About the Author

Julie C. Eger writes novels, short stories and poetry! Take a peek. I bet you'll find something you like!

Julie has been to some places. She's lived in houses, worn some shoes, had some hairstyles, bought a red dress, banged on drums. She knows a thing or two about rocks and totems. She's a girl, daughter, sister, woman, mother, ex-wife, wife, grandma.

She's panned for gold, water-skied over alligators in the Mississippi Bayou, spent a day at a nude beach in Jamaica. She's been in the dog house, missed a payment, burned breakfast, smelled the roses, stopped the car, stayed out too late, addressed the envelope upside down, forgot to call, ran a red light, written in the dark, sang her heart out, lived on rice and beans, slept in her car, drank too many margaritas too fast, and won a contest or two. She has loved. She has been loved. But most of all, she hopes you'll like her story.

She would like to thank you for stopping by. She would ask a small favor that would help her out in a big way. If you enjoyed this book please take a moment to write a short review of why you enjoyed this story and post it on Amazon. Your reviews help her to share her work with a wider audience. You can connect with her on FaceBook at Once Upon a Blank Page for info on new releases and special promos.

Julie is the author of a fiction novel, EENY MEENY CRIMINY CROW, and a chapbook of poems, PERENNIAL - poems that last.

I'm a writer and a poet from Chicago who writes in many genres, whichever way the muse blows me. From erotica to suspense I write what I feel. Follow me daily at Marlon's Writings on Facebook. Email me at marlonshayes@gmail.com

Eddie D. Moore travels hundreds of hours a year, and he fills that time by listening to audiobooks. When he isn’t playing with his grandchildren, he writes his own stories. His stories have been published by Kzine, Alien Dimensions, Black Hare Press, Nomadic Delirium Press, Fantasia Divinity Publishing and by dozens of online publishers. You can find a list of his publications on his blog, eddiedmoore.wordpress.com. Be sure to pick up a copy of his mini-anthology Misfits & Oddities.

Jay Crowley is the pen name for Judie Crowley. She lives in Jack's Valley near the base of beautiful Lake Tahoe, Nevada. All of the stories originate in Nevada, which offers an exciting background, providing lots of story opportunities. "A little history with a mystery." There are two dogs and a cat in the family, and quite often, a dog is in the stories.

The novel "Laura" is about a murder that takes place in the Elko area. Also "My Selection of Short Stories,” the best from different anthologies. "Not Worthy-Story of Revenge," a Novella, "Maggie" is about horse poaching, airmail arrows, and a quilting club that helps to solve the mystery. "Drum of Hope" about the Sutro Tunnel in NV and sex trafficking.

My new book is out, "Lahontan City" is dealing with ghost towns, mining, murder, and a ghost.

Many of her short stories were written for an online magazine Five59.com. However, she also published in the following anthologies: “Other Realms-A Collections of Fantasy I & II,” “13 Bites, Vol 3 and IV,” “Heard it on the Radio” and “Plan 559 From Outer Space, MKII & III”, "Free for All," "Collapsar Directive," “Christmas Lites VII and VIII” and “Christmas Lites IX.” Also, in "Tales of the Southwest."

Some of my ACTION-PACKED stories include:

"Cabin in the Meadow," about a young girl and her dog who want to try the pioneer adventure in Hope Valley.

"A Ship in the Desert," about a couple and their dog. They run into more than they bargained for going to see a cement ship in the desert between Fallon and Hawthorne. Plus dealing with PTSD.

"Opal," A young girl who wants to be a paleontologist, but she finds more than artifacts and gems.

"Laura." a vicious murder that takes place around Elko, this story deals with forensic and DNA. The town is scared as the murderer maybe someone they know.

"Not Worthy-Story of Revenge" is about a child growing up in an Indian school and her "Soul Wound" and how she seeks and gets her revenge. This new and had not received reviews as of yet.

"Maggie" Best friends search for airmail arrows but run into wild horse poaching. To help solve the mystery, they bring in the "Wild Stitchers, a quilting club. This adventure is full of facts and excitement.

"Drum of Hope" Maggie and Nan are back. A little history about the famous Sutro Tunnel and

their involvement in helping a young girl involved in sex trafficking.

All are on Amazon in paperback and kindle plus Barnes and Noble online. The stories have received five-star reviews.

"A Gift from Nate: A Story of a Double Lung Transplant," a story about a family dealing with a double lung transplant procedure. Lots of medical info is included in the story.

"Natalie's Adventures" is a middle-grade book for 8-10-year-olds. Which includes three stories: One about a young girl and her travels to Great Basin National Park, one about finding a dead person and the other looking for hidden gold.

Jay has won several writing awards. Jay was selected to be in "Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2020, which is on Amazon. My writing is crisp and fresh, making them a fast read.

Visit my website www.sweetdreamsbooks.com or email: jaycrowleybooks@gmail.com

Sharon Frame Gay grew up a child of the highway, playing by the side of the road. She is internationally published in several anthologies and literary magazines, including Chicken Soup For The Soul, Gravel, Biostories, Typehouse, Crannog Magazine, Lowestoft Chronicle, Thrice Fiction, Fiction on the Web, Saddlebag Dispatches, Literary Orphans,Typehouse and others. She has won awards at The Writing District, Rope and Wire, Owl Hollow Press and Wow-Women On Writing, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

A collection of her short stories, "Song of the Highway" is out now in paperback and Kindle.

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JM Ames is an award-winning multi-genre speculative fiction author native to Southern California. He has multiple publications dating back to 2016. One thing holds true throughout all of his stories - you can Expect the Unexpected.

When not working his day job or enjoying his fatherly adventures, he writes short stories and novels, including an upcoming series.

You can follow him on the following platforms:

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Hello! I'm Carmen. As if 36 years in the classroom weren't enough, I now "teach" from home, helping aspiring authors with their own manuscripts, researching marketing strategies, and working on my next book. You can find me in the mountains of northern New Mexico where my husband and I enjoy a peaceful, quiet life caring for our animal family and any stray that happens to stop by.

My first book, El Hermano, published in 2017 and was selected as historical fiction finalist in the NM-AZ Co-op Book Awards program. That book inspired many ideas for stories which I subsequently wrote and am still writing. Since 2017, I’ve published six more. My 3rd book, Cuentos del Cañón, received first place in short story anthology category from the NM-AZ Co-op Book Awards program. I’ve also published 64 short stories, poems, essays, CNF, and articles in literary magazines, journals, and anthologies between books (to date 10.19.2022).

R.A. Goli is an Australian reader, writer, gamer and sometime hiker. She writes horror, fantasy, speculative fiction and erotic horror. Hobbies include bugging her pets and husband.

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Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is the winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year, her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020 and 2021,” published by Sweetycat Press. She is the author of 14 poetry books. lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and four cats. Her most recent credits are: Sparks of Calliope; The Closed Eye Open, Poetic Sun, Tangled Locks Journal, Wild Roof Journal, The American Writers Review, The Scribe Magazine, The Phoenix, Burningword Literary Journal, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Silver Blade, Pomona Valley Review, West Texas Literary Review, The Hungry Chimera, Sheila-Na-Gig, Fourth & Sycamore.

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DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction writer with hundreds of stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC's stories have appeared in: Progenitor, 34th Parallel, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Lunch Ticket, and others. DC’s recently released collection Captured Up Close (20th Century Short-Short Stories) has two Pushcart Prize nominated stories and one nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Her first collection of stories was Stepping Up. She lives on the California coast with her wife and animals. dcdiamondopolous.com

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Short-fiction author, and poet, Nerisha Kemraj, hails from Durban, South Africa. She is the mother of procrastination, and two beautiful girls.

Follow M W Brown down the skeleton-strewn path. The international bestselling author longs to lure you into her dark, twisted imagination, lock the door and wait for you to scream.

Her love of all things supernatural and terrifying started at an early age. That love exploded when she discovered Steven King, Clive Barker, and Shirley Jackson. She devoured ghost stories, horror films, and dabbled in writing her own. Brown studied mathematics and psychology at university because there wasn't a course in horror and found numbers and people can be just as terrifying. But it took her decades in finance to follow her true passion and realize her macabre imagination needed an outlet.

Brown has penned Portraits in Flesh, The Lingering Taste of Salted Chocolate, Reality, Under the Moonlight, Iced Coffee Confessions, Jealousy's Shadow, Glass Asylum and co-written The Broken Mirror Series and Through the Eyes of the Mummy, as well as over a dozen short stories.

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Patricia Elliott lives in Beautiful British Columbia with her husband of 20 years and their children. Now that their lovely kids are all teenagers, she has decided to actively pursue her passion for the written word.

When she was a youngster, she spent the majority of her time writing fanfiction and poetry to avoid the harsh reality of bullying. Writing allowed her to escape into another world, even if temporarily; a world in which she could be anyone or anything, even a mermaid.

Dreams really can come true. If you believe it, you can achieve it!

RLM Cooper, a summa cum laude university graduate, writes poetry, short stories, and novel-length fiction. She is a member of International Thriller Writers and has been published in literary reviews both domestically and internationally and is included in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020.” Her debut novel, Legacy 627, was published in September, 2020.

With all that boring stuff out of the way we can talk about her fave authors among whom are Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, and Lee Child. When she is not reading or writing she is either cooking up a new vegan recipe, watching football, softball, and/or providing a lap for her Tonkinese cat, better known as “The Boss.”

P.A. O’Neil has been writing professionally six years. Her stories have been featured in multiple anthologies, as well as on-line journals and magazines from several continents. She is twice winner of “Story of the Month” on the Spillwords.com website. She and her husband reside in Thurston County, Washington. She is a member of The Sound of the Baskervilles, the John H. Watson Society, and the Association of Christian Writers. Her book, Witness Testimony and Other Tales, is available in paperback and eBook, from Amazon. For links to other books which feature her stories visit her Amazon author page: P.A. O’Neil.

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Brandy Bonifas currently resides in Ohio with her husband and son. When she isn't busy reining in her rambuctious preschooler, she spends late nights at her laptop working on her next story. Her speculative fiction spans several genres and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in anthologies by Clarendon House Publications, Zombie Pirate Publishing, and Pixie Forest Publishing. To find out more visit her at http://brandybonifas.com where you can also subscribe to her blog for updates on her current projects and releases.

J.W. Garrett is a multi–award winning author and has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. Her love of the Fantasy genre goes all the way back to elementary school when she read The Hobbit for the first time - she's been hooked ever since. Her works include novels and poetry as well as short stories.

When she's not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family.

Check out Remeon's Quest, the latest book in her fantasy scifi series, Realms of Chaos.

Visit her website at www.jwgarrett.com to subscribe to her newsletter and find out the latest updates regarding new releases and works in progress.

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Told by a high school teacher that he had writing talent, Steve Carr’s career as a writer began right after graduation. He spent three years in the Army as a military journalist, writing articles for newspapers all over Florida, and followed that up with four years in the Navy where he taught in the Psychiatric Technician Program at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, training Hospital Corpsmen how to provide care and support in an inpatient setting for young men with psychiatric disorders. He then finished college, majoring in English/Theater and then spent the next 13 years working in non-profit health care development and management, mostly in rural communities, during which time several of his plays that he wrote in his spare time were produced in several states. He gave up the steady income to pursue his dream of writing/producing/directing his own plays and began a theatrical production company in Arizona. He retired early and in June 2016 began writing short stories. Since then he has had over 550 short stories published internationally in over 280 different print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Collections of his short stories, Sand, Rain, The Tales of Talker Knocks, and the hardback edition The Very Best of Steve Carr: 52 stories, was published by Clarendon House Publications. His collection of short stories, Heat, was published by Czykmate Productions. His self-published debut novel, Redbird, was released in November, 2019. He independently published LGBTQ: 33 Stories, which was released in January, 2020. In May of 2020 his short story collection The Theory of Existence: 50 short stories, was released. His guidebook Getting Your Short Stories Published was also published by Clarendon House. He has over 130 publications and books that contain his short stories listed on his Amazon bibliography. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. In 2019, he was on the cover of the Inner Circle Writers’ Magazine inaugural issue and dubbed “The King of Short Stories.” He’s a native of Cincinnati but has traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia where when he’s not writing he frets about his writing peers not getting the attention they deserve. He is the founder of Sweetycat Press, a Facebook Group, that produces publications as promotion tools for emerging writers

David Bowmore was born on a winter’s night with the sound of thunder and the flash of lightning welcoming him into a brightly painted Gypsy caravan. Forty-five years later he started writing fiction. After a steep learning curve, his short stories and flash fiction began to appear in various collections.

A classically trained chef, a personable teacher and unqualified landscape gardener, David has lived here, there and everywhere, but currently dwells in Yorkshire with his wonderful wife and a small white poodle.

David tends to write thrillers and mysteries as well as stories with a touch of the supernatural about them. He focuses on character and the oddities of being human, sometimes with humour, but more often with dark unreality.

When he was younger, he had a love of science fiction and fantasy. In adult life his reading tastes veered towards thrilling mysteries, particularly Golden Age crime. You know the sort of thing – country house murders where everyone is a suspect, impossible locked room mysteries with more red herrings than your local fishing hole.

David is an admirer of many authors including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Eric Ambler, Patricia Highsmith, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King, and P.G. Wodehouse.

Since his first published story, 'Sins of The Father' appeared in Vortex, published by Clarendon House in 2018, David has featured in more than seventy-five short story anthologies, journals and magazines.

In 2020, The Magic of Deben Market was enacted by BookStreamz with actors from across the globe comparing his work to 'Tales of The Unexpected' and 'Inside No. 9'

C.L. Williams is an independent author from central Virginia. He is a writer of poetry, short stories, recently released his first novel, and is a contributor to multiple anthologies. When C.L. Williams is not writing, he is reading the works of other independent authors

G. Allen Wilbanks, an internationally best-selling author on Amazon, is a retired police officer living in Northern California. For twenty-five years he wrote collision and crime reports to pay the bills while writing short fiction at nights to keep himself sane. In 2016, he retired from real life to focus on fantasy full time.

He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and has had over 200 short stories published in Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, Mythic, The Colored Lens, as well as many other magazines, e-zines and anthologies from all over the world.

He has published two short story collections of his own as well as multiple novels.

His novels include, When Darkness Comes, published in 2017, and A Life of Adventure which debuted as one of Amazon's Hot New Releases in July, 2020.

For more information about the author and his current writing projects, please visit www.gallenwilbanks.com.

A multi-award-winning author, P.C. has always had a vivid imagination.

When he was in kindergarten, he convinced his classmates that his grandma was a tribal shamaness. Then he learned his letters, and kidding his friends no longer seemed adequate—so he started writing fantasy.

P.C. has published two standalone novels, and a series called The Deathless Chronicle and is working on his new epic fantasy project, The Magic Circle series.

His stories have been featured in numerous publications, and ‘A Poisoned Gift’ received an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. He is Spillwords Author of the Year 2020.

Find P.C. at www.pcdarkcliff.com

C.L. Steele creates new worlds and mystical places filled with complex characters on exciting journeys. Her typical genre is Sci-Fi/Fantasy, where she concentrates on writing in the sub-genres of Magical Realism, Near Future, and Futuristic worlds. Published in numerous anthologies, Steele looks forward to the release of her debut novel. In the interim, she works on other books and continues to write short stories, novellas, and poetry. She is featured as one of five international authors in ICWG Magazine through Clarendon Publishing House and is a contributing author to Blood Puddles Literary Journal. Follow her growing career at:

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Bio

Two new books are available by 7/1/2019. "Blaze" by Clarendon Publishing features UNMATCHED by CL Steele. It is a light fantasy about what really happens to those missing socks. Also if you like super short stories I have two appearing in "Beyond" by Black Hare Press. The HOUR OF SCOUR is a dark comedy of a supernatural realm and FLASK OF GUILT is a dark tragedy both exactly 100 words each. I hope you will add them to your library.

I am a congenital heart defect survivor who finds joy and peace through the expression of writing. I twist fairy tales into thrillers, horrors, or light-hearted mysteries. My husband and I spend our free time wrangling two children and playing video games in our busy California lifestyle.

Amber M. Simpson is a dark speculative fiction writer from Northern Kentucky with a penchant for horror and fantasy. Her fiction has been featured in multiple themed anthologies as well as online. She has acted as Assistant Editor for Fantasia Divinity Magazine since 2017, where she's gotten to work with many talented authors from all over the world.

While she loves to create dark worlds and diverse characters, her greatest creations of all are her sons, Maxamus and Liam, who keep her feet on the ground even while her head is in the clouds.

To learn more, visit: https://ambermsimpson.com.

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Kelli J. Gavin lives in Carver, Minnesota. She is a Writer, Blogger and Professional Organizer.

Her first book called I Regret Nothing- A Collection of Poetry and Prose - was published in July of 2019.

My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism (August, 2019) - is co-authored with Zach Gavin (Illustrator), her son who has Autism.

7 Journals/Magazines most of which have been published on Amazon.com.

She has also co-authored 30+ anthology books. Most of these fantastic anthology collections are available on Amazon.com and Lulu.com.

Two new books from Kelli are planned for 2022 and 2023.

"One of the Best Special Needs Books of All Time" - BookAuthority- My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

"Best New Special Needs Book of 2019" - BookAuthority- My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

"Best Special Needs Books for 2020" - BookAuthority- My Name Is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

"13 Best Special Needs Books To Read In 2021" - BookAuthority- My Name is Zach- A Teenage Perspective on Autism

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Born in Germany, Kerri was raised on the Eastern plains of Colorado and currently lives in Utah with her husband, dog, and cat. She is an author and mentor, having worked with middle and high school writing clubs. Kerri's characters portray warmth, heart, and wit, giving them lives with which readers can identify. She writes multi-genre but focuses mainly on speculative fiction. At age fifty-eight, she published her first short story in Dastaan World Magazine, followed by short stories in other ezines, including Spillwords.com, Fifty-Word Stories and the prestigious Inner Circle Writers' Magazine. She has published short stories in many anthologies, “Dark X-mas: 100 Word Holiday Horror Stories,” “Portal: The Inner Circle Writers’ Group Children's Anthology 2019,” "Ancients: A Dark Microfiction Anthology," "Unity," a charity anthology for Doctors Without Borders, "Alpha One: A Christian Cornucopia" which includes a true Christian experience, "Poetica 2, Poetica 3, Poetica 4, Poetica 5, and Poetica 6: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Poetry Anthologies for 2020 - 2022," "Galaxy 2: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Sci-fi and Fantasy Flash Fiction Anthology 2021". She also was accepted into the "Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2020 and 2021". She has an essay in "I, the Writer". All three were published by Sweetycat Press. She has an essay and a poem in "To Be Or Not To Be A Writer," also by Sweetycat Press, on which she was an editor. She was the editor for "The Wordsmith Chronicles," by Sweetycat Press and "Journeys," published by Stone Pony Press as well as publishing two short stories in that volume. She participated in a unique anthology in which 80 authors from around the world wrote individual episodes to bring together, "The Whole Wide World: An Episodic International Criminal Manhunt Anthology" published by Sweetycat Press. Her episode was number 39. Five drabbles each have been published in "Legends of the Night: Infection" and "Legends of the Night: Bloodlust" by Black Ink Fiction. In addition, three drabbles and a short story have been published in "Discordia: Stories of a World in Chaos," an anthology published by Dastaan World on which she was also an editor. A short story was published in "Dimensions of Fantasy, Volume Two" published by Writers Unite! And four new anthologies by Sweetycat Press titled, "A Love Letter (or Poem) To," "Stories & Poems in the Song of Life," "Beautiful: In the Eye of the Beholder" and "Movement: Our Bodies in Action," the last a tribute to the love between her parents. She has been a blogger since 2004 and currently has one about writing which can be found here: https://kerriwrites342770527.wordpress.com/. As an editor, you may find her website here: https://kljesmer79.wixsite.com/website.

Elaine Marie Carnegie-Padgett is a Texas girl, born and bred! A paralegal and private investigator turned journalist and author. She wrote for a local Newspaper in the Texas Hill Country for ten years, and during that time produced a Regional Visitors Guide. Her historical articles have been published in Luxury and Lifestyle Magazines, Visitors Guides while her non-fiction, works appear in online and print venues and have been used in the Texas School System to teach middle-grade children about the dangers of the internet. In the Texas Legislature to check the intrusive powers of POA’s in the State of Texas, and on Discovery ID on Human Trafficking and its consequences on a human life. She has worked with local law enforcement, the FBI, and Texas Rangers, and those experiences are reflected in many of her stories. In the last two years she has published eighteen short stories in various anthologies, and poetry available on Amazon and her website, https://www.authorelainemarie.com. She is currently querying her first novel and writing a second thriller about a paranormal behavioral analyst. Elaine makes her home in the lush East Texas Piney Woods amid her grown children and grandchildren.

Denise is a Sydney-based editor, writer and poet. She has a background in commercial book publishing and assists independent authors through her own imprint Black Quill Press.

Her poems are widely published and awarded, and she is Poetry Editor for Australia/New Zealand for Irish literary journal The Blue Nib. Her debut poetry collection, The Beating Heart, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2020.

Website: https://denise-ohagan.com

Thomas Sturgeon Jr was born in March 14th, 1986 to his parents. His birthplace is in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He is 34 and just had his first book published called , "Red Carnival". During his teen years he found out that he had mental health issues which made it harder for him to achieve what he wanted out of life itself. He arrived to finally achieve his dreams. He has been published in 23 anthologies. Some teachers said that he never would achieve success in the writing field. He had a few teachers rooting for him to do his best. He was a very early reader and started writing at the age of 13. His favorite authors are R.L. Stine and Stephen King.

He's a very intelligent person despite his disabilities with a kind and loving heart. He cares about people. He was once even told a few year's before he got his book published that his work was good and saw that people really enjoyed listening to his poetry at Ziggy's Underground Music Bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He made great friends with a singer and now has a poetry album cd called "Master of Storms". Thomas also writes lyrics to song's. He longs to have his own place again. He also loves horror movie's and video games. His favorite horror director is George A. Romero and the living dead series. His favorite video game series is "Resident Evil". He is currently at work on a second short story collection.

Ger comes from a strong Celtic line of Irish stories and poetry. She writes to bring pleasure to others and for the continuity of this simple way of living and entertainment.

Her poems cover landscape, childhood, beauty, betrayal, loss, gardening, the world around us, “a capture of life’s moments”. She encourages people to “Seek the beauty in their surroundings”.

For this reason they align closely with Irish poets Seamus Heaney, John O’Donoghue, or Brendan Kennelly.

She is grateful to be married to the gentlest of men who takes care of everything allowing her time to splurge on writing!

When not writing her pleasures are walks in the country with friends followed by a nice cuppa tea and chat at the end. She now lives in Sussex, UK.

SHAWN M. KLIMEK is the award-winning poet and author of more than 200 published poems and short stories in several genres, including the illustrated, poetic fantasy tale, “Hungry Thing”. He travels the globe with his military nurse wife and their Maltese. Follow him on Facebook @shawnmklimekauthor, on Twitter @shawnmklimek, or via his blog, https://blog.jotinthedark.com/.

Born in Europe, English is his second language, following Italian—then Latin, Pig Latin, French, ASL and assorted computer languages. He now lives in upstate New York with three cats.

He managed a series of oil company outlets; ran two of his own; became a mechanic, then truck driver, did direct sales; became a Field Engineer for main frame computers. After ten years he switched to software and worked ten more years, receiving world wide acclaim, as a System Programmer.

In college he took a dislike to writing of any kind and swore never to try that again. Well, some years later, influenced by Babylon 5's creator and his own pressure to write about three traumatic events, he turned to creative writing. As of June 2021, he has shared 150 published stories online (over 5.1 million views), in nineteen anthologies and two literary journals. AARP volunteer instructor since 2000. We suppose he's one of those who just can't keep a job!

author, instructor, storyteller

He is listed in "Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2020"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B4H8DFD/

Follow him at https://tinyurl.com/Paradiso-Author

and https://books2read.com/ap/RWjj5e/AL-Paradiso

Interviewed by Sarah Walker, UK, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub0vgjlk87U

also in

"PRACTICE My Son": Father and genius son bond in https://short-edition.com/en/story/1-min/practice-my-son American Library Association,

"Seth's Talks": Dragon boy rider and his dragon, Seth, chat during lunch. In Flash Fiction Addiction anthology; https://www.amazon.com/dp/1091710414

"Crossed Wires": Her parents loved me. Was that enough for us? In GUA No. 8 print Arts magazine https://www.genreurbanarts.com/product/no-8-print

"Super Power": Adapting to a surprise super power. Could you do better? in Blaze: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Flash Fiction Anthology ebook at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T9F5GF1 , print at lulu.com/shop/grant-p-hudson/blaze-the-inner-circle-writers-group-flash-fiction-anthology-2019/paperback/product-24145400.html

"Windy Paris": A non romance romance in 100 words. In BEYOND: A PARANORMAL MICROFICTION ANTHOLOGY, Dark Drabbles #4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9XCN4L

Dragon Tales Collection: Join with a boy obsessed with becoming a dragon rider. Share five of the stories with kids after you read them. B&N; https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dragon-tales-collection-al-paradiso/1132125976

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TM191T4/

"Big Bang Explained": My revolutionary grand unification theory explained by Carl Sagan. In Tempest: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology 2019!

In paperback at http://www.lulu.com/shop/grant-p-hudson/tempest-the-inner-circle-writers-group-science-fiction-and-fantasy-anthology-2019/paperback/product-24205037.html

And kindle at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W65833D/ref=sr_1_1

"EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE": Inspired by the song. Who is he? In GLEAM: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Second Flash Fiction Anthology 2019. In paperback http://www.lulu.com/shop/grant-p-hudson/gleam-the-inner-circle-writers-group-second-flash-fiction-anthology-2019/paperback/product-24262021.html

and Kindle https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YGS39TW

"Romance on Wheels": In BAD ROMANCE, billed as an anti Valentine's Day anthology, about a man's romance with his car and how it affected his living romance(s).

"DNA Surprise": A family is surprised by DNA results. In Maelstrom: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Literary Anthology 2019, www.amazon.com/Maelstrom-Circle-Writers-Literary-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0821T64Z3/

"Faller?": LOVE - is love trust? in DARK DRABBLES #7

"Deep See": is in OCEANS: Drabbles #9 Dark, sea creatures. The octopus incident.

"Deep See Covert": in OCEANS: Drabbles #9 Dark, sea creatures. Octopus royalty.

"Black Feline Love": is in Love is Love by Breaking Rules Publishing. If you ever lost a beloved pet, you MUST read this. https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Rules-Publishing-Love-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0843B2STN/

"Paris Encore": Is in Glamour: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Romance Anthology 2019 This is a special story called ‘a beautiful, bitter/sweet love story'. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B084NZPZP9

Quantum Quirk: I wrote this for a call from the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore for a story that included Quantum Mechanics. QM is not the star. https://shorts.quantumlah.org/entry/quantum-quirk

Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2020 & 2021: I'm honored to be included with so many talented authors!

The following are in https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/al-paradiso/

I Will Not Fear: Facing a greatest fear. Overcoming it? Perhaps.

PAIN less: About siblings. I find this a moving if not disturbing piece with some truthful details

A Little Help: An aging theme.

Black Feline: Heart wrenching story of a life-long bond. 99% true.

Thanksgiving 2121: What it may be like on its 500th anniversary - on a space station 400 miles up.

Laundry Day: A common task has lasting effects, surprises and secrets revealed.

Hairy Kari's Bad Hair Day A man tries immersion therapy to help his wife resolve her Haphephobia at a spa/salon.

My Secret Passage: Discovering an unusual secret passage at home

My Overseas Volunteer Trip to Dumbistan in West Asia: My 10-day journal of a life changing trip to a primitive village-nation.

Forrest Monsters: 70-year secrets revealed; small rebel army may be our last hope.

CHILD'S PLAY, is published in the Esopus Library literary journal's inaugural issue of QUARANANZINE. You may read it free at https://www.esopuslibrary.org/quaranzine-1

This is a touching short story of a mother and child after the Chernobyl disaster.

Book of Books A catalog of 129 books and novels of almost every genre written by some of the best emerging writers on the worldwide writing scene today. It features my DRAGON TALES COLLECTION. available on Amazon.

"I, The Writer" from SweetyCat Press. My photo is bottom center, right behind the logo. Looks just like me --- in the dark. :) Many 5 * reviews. 114 essays by modern-day authors fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, song writers, playwrights and journalists from across the globe write about the intertwining of their personal lives with their journeys in the literary arts. In this volume authors provide keen insights into the early influences and experiences that transformed them into writers and what keeps them writing, in some cases while in dire situations or facing life crises. Every one of them is published, some on the cusp of fame, every one of them is able to proudly title their essay. "I, The Writer."

Print and ebook — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LT8L2NQ

Finally Fishing - A short flash story of deception, greed and sharks: https://spillwords.com/finally-fishing/

Anatomy and Blind Dating - An unusual blind date gets intimate and surprising: spillwords.com/anatomy-and-blind-dating/

Chat/interview with Paula Readman of "For Writers only, who write without Fear of Rejection" group. The only way to visit the Clubhouse is via membership or invite to the Clubhouse tearoom. This is your invitation to catch my unique chat interview. I hope you'll find some tid bits interesting as we sip our hot chocolate.

https://paularcreadmanauthor.blog/2020/09/12/clubhouse-chat-a-l-paradiso/

Vacation Letter From IO in an epistolary antho - TBA

Waking a Vampire is accepted for Nightmare With a Twist TBA

Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2021 available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095NLK717

MARS FIRST is in Galaxy # 2: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Sci-fi and Fantasy Flash Fiction Anthology 2021,

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0949H4JDC

THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (An International Manhunt) features my episode, "Untitled - Limp Noodle Sauce."

It involves time travel, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, and the origins of the secret sauce recipe. This is a variation on a chain story --- not that kind! --- where an author writes a chapter then passes it on to another author and s/he writes a connecting chapter etc., In this book, the publisher set a plot and invited authors to write episodes to that plot with restrictions. Available Sept 2021

MARIA J. ESTRADA (they/them/elle) is an English college professor of Composition, Literature, and their favorite, Creative Writing. Estrada grew up in the desert outside of Yuma, Arizona in the real Barrio de Los Locos, a barrio comprised of new Mexican immigrants and first-generation Chicanos. Drawing from this setting and experiences, Estrada writes like a locx every minute they can—all while magically balancing their work and family obligations. Estrada lives in Chicago’s south side with their wonderfully supportive husband, two remarkable children, and a menagerie of animals.

Jim is an award-winning author whose stories and poems have appeared in nearly four-hundred online and print publications. His collection of short stories Resilience was published in March 2021, by Bridge House Publishing. Short Stuff a collection of flash fiction and drabbles was published in October 2021, by Chapeltown Books. Periodic Stories and Periodic Stories Volume Two were published in July and September 2021, by Impspired. Dreamers a collection of short stories was published in March 2022, by Clarendon House Publishing. Something Better a dystopian adventure novella was published in July 2021, by Dark Myth Publications. Most recently, Periodic Stories Volume Three – A Novel was published in April 2022, by Impspired. His short story “Aliens” was nominated by The Zodiac Press for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. His story “The Maple Leaf” was voted 2021 story of the year for Spillwords. He lives in a small-town west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. All of his work can be found on his blog at www.theviewfromlonglake.wordpress.com.

Sue Marie St. Lee writes tales that challenge your imagination and poems that touch your heart — one way or another. She has featured in several international horror anthologies including Black Hare Press releases. Her poems and prose can be found on Spillwords Press. A short fantasy tale, Unseen Magic, appears on The Paper Djinn. Her most recent work, Rhapsodie de Claire, appears in an anthology inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and is available on Amazon.