
Fiction

Fiction
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Vale of Tears
Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, poems, and novels. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist—who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
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Ticket to Romance
John Ross Archer is a retired Colonel from the US Army where he served for 23 years. He holds a master’s degree in psychology and is an active Rotarian. He is the past owner of a strategic planning firm and was a technical college vice president. He and his wife reside in Thomasville, Georgia, and share five children, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
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One of Those Smoking Couples
Anthony ILacqua’s fiction has appeared in Mad Swirl, The Writing Disorder and The Flash Fiction Press, among others. He currently functions as editor in chief for Umbrella Factory Magazine. Meet Anthony at: anthonyilacqua.blogspot.com
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New Beginning
Debasis Tripathy is originally from Odisha, a state in eastern India, and he currently lives in Bangalore solely to earn a livelihood. He started writing seriously a little late, but luckily since then, within a short span he has his writings published in Former Cactus, Prachya Review, Nuances, CLRI Journal, Setu, Muse India, Indian Review, among other places.
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Breakfast for Dinner
Jessica Bergquist is a writer from Fredericksburg, VA where she currently studies at University of Mary Washington. Other works by her can also be found in Vessel Press and Wax Seal Literary Magazine. For more information on her and her work, visit jessicabergquist.wordpress.com
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Client 7
Stephen Mcquiggan lives in N. Ireland. He can be contacted at slabberjocky@aol.com
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Endless Sky
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois has had over fourteen-hundred of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He was awarded the 2017 Booranga Writers’ Centre (Australia) Prize for Fiction. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, is based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital. He lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.
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Following Frida
Deepayan Bhattacharjee is a writer living in Siliguri, India. He has a Masters in Computer Science from Stony Brook, New York, and left his job as a researcher to pursue traveling and writing.
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Dear Maliwan
Malini Mukherjee writes and publishes for children, primarily. But she takes great delight in writing and directing plays for children and adults alike, writing travelogues or short stories. “Mundane” and “Everyday” strikes her as fantastic, which she tries to pen down. She is an educator by profession, and founder member of Uraan, an educational organization.
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Glam & Glitz
Wanderlust and love of travel have taken Katacha Díaz all over the world to gather material for her stories. Among the children’s books she has authored is Badger at Sandy Ridge Road for the Smithsonian Institution’s Backyard series, and Carolina’s Gift: A Story of Peru for Soundprints’ Make Friends Around the World series. She lives and writes in a quaint little historic town at the mouth of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.