A defiant literary magazine.
Levi Abadilla, short story “The Goldilocks Dilemma”—published in volume 2
LEVI ABADILLA is a queer Filipino author who grew up in the Cebu province and who enjoys all things weird and uncanny. Their work has been featured in Stories After Dark, Hominum Journal, and Last Syllable.
Their short story “The Goldilocks Dilemma” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2.
Michael Bickford, poem “Afterglow” published in volume 1
MICHAEL BICKFORD was born in Los Angeles and escaped north. After an extensive street education, he graduated with a BA and a teaching credential from San Francisco State University. In 1990, he moved with his wife and their two children from San Francisco to the unceded land of the Wiyot people on California’s Redwood Coast. He acknowledges the American Genocide and works toward reparations and rematriation.
Mr. Bickford taught middle school for 30 years in San Francisco and Eureka, CA. He is a fellow of the Redwood Writing Project of Cal Poly Humboldt and a founding member of Lost Coast Writers Community, Inc., and writes poetry and fiction in Arcata, California. His work has appeared in Abandoned Mine, Fauxmoir, Seven Gill Shark Review, Ink People Center for the Arts, The North Coast Journal, Behind the Mask: 40 Humboldt Poets on the Pandemic, The /tƐmz/ Review, and Neologism Poetry Review.
Last year he wrote, produced, and performed the one act play, Ali, Cosell, My Dad, and Me for Exit Theater’s Short Play Festival
His dual-language chapbook, Mrs. Silva Walks to the Azores, A Story in Ten Cantos (with Portuguese translation by 2023 National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato) is forthcoming this winter from Finishing Line Press.
His poem “Afterglow” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 1 and online.
Jim Burns, poem “Summer Night” published in volume 1
JIM BURNS was born and raised in rural Indiana and spent most of his working life as a librarian in Iowa and Florida. Retirement gifted him with free time, and he returned to a decades-old, but placed aside, interest in writing, especially poetry, several of his pieces having now appeared in Eucalyptus Lit, Skipjack Review, Ulu Review, and other online and/or print publications. He lives with his wife and dog in Jacksonville, Florida.
His poem “Summer Night” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 1 and online.
Keiraj M. Gillis, poems “hot chocolate” (volume 1), “Stitched Up and Full of Fluff” (volume 2)
KEIRAJ M. GILLIS is a gothic and spiritual poet whose works explore the mind and the esoteric. His poetry collections include St. Sagittarius, The Gentleman Vagrant, and Handsome for One More Day, which are projects that have allowed him to document his spiritual journey. He enjoys his work as a publisher and spends his time immersing himself in the culture of the American South and Southwest.
His poem “hot chocolate” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 1 and online. His poem “Stitched Up and Full of Fluff” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2.
Rik Hoskin, short story “I’ve Missed You” published in volume 2
RIK HOSKIN is a multi-award winning writer of novels, graphic novels, video games and animation. He’s written comics for Star Wars, Doctor Who and various other properties, and won the Dragon Award for Best Graphic Novel 2018 for White Sand (with Brandon Sanderson), which also made the New York Times Bestseller list. He writes SF and horror novels and short stories under his own name and as “James Axler.” He also writes video games, where he has served as head writer, and has written animation for BBC television in the UK.
His short story “I’ve Missed You” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2.
Toshiya Kamei, short story “Broken Strings”—published in volume 2
TOSHIYA KAMEI (they/them) takes inspiration from fairy tales, folklore, and mythology. They attempt to reimagine the past, present, and future while shifting between various perspectives and points of view. Many of their characters are outsiders living on the margins of society.
Their short story “Broken Strings” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2.
Caroline Misner, short story “This Won’t Hurt a Bit”—published in volume 2
CAROLINE MISNER was nominated in 2009 for the prestigious Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Anthology Prize as well a Pushcart Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2004 her novella received Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. A short story was also a finalist in the same contest. A novel, The Glass Cocoon was a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award the following year. Her novella The Watchmaker was published in November 2011 by Vagabondage Press and is selling well in e-book format. Her YA fantasy novel “The Daughters of Eldox: Book I: The Alicorn” has been released by Whiskey Creek Press to positive reviews and the sequel entitled “The Daughters of Eldox, Book II: The Other” was released in the spring of 2016. Her historical novel entitled “The Spoon Asylum” was released by Thistledown Press in May 2018 and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award. Another novel entitled SEEDs of the Inside Straight was published in April 2024 by Austin Macauley.
Her short story “This Won’t Hurt a Bit” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2.
Kate Lunn-Pigula, short story “This Is My Voice” published in volume 1
KATE LUNN-PIGULA has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham. Her work has been published by Litro, Clover and White, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Idle Ink, The Honest Ulsterman, Other People’s Flowers, Bunbury Magazine, and Thresholds, amongst others. You can find her at her website at https://katelunnpigula.wordpress.com and on Instagram @katelunnpigula.
Her short story “This Is My Voice” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 1 and online.
Diana Raab, poem “Need a Poem” published in volume 1
DIANA RAAB, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, workshop leader, thought-leader and award-winning author of fourteen books. Her work has been widely published and anthologized. She frequently speaks and writes on writing for healing and transformation. Her latest memoir is Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors, A memoir with reflection and writing prompts (Modern History Press, 2024).
Raab writes for Psychology Today, The Wisdom Daily, The Good Men Project, Thrive Global, and is a guest blogger for many others. Raab lives in Southern California. Visit her at: https:/www.dianaraab.com.
Her poem “Need a Poem” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 1 and online.
Sherry Shahan, short story “Ginia and Vitti”—published in volume 2
SHERRY SHAHAN is a teal-haired septuagenarian who writes in a small beach town in California. Her stories live in Hippocampus, Critical Read, december, F(r)iction, Progenitor, Antitheses, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry.
Her short story “Ginia and Vitti” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2 and online.
Lucretia Stanhope, short story “Fur’tive”—published in volume 2
LUCRETIA STANHOPE, a neurodiverse, relentlessly optimistic chronic illness warrior with less grace than determination, navigates her crone stage in a quaint Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. Amidst enduring medical trials that could rival horror stories, her pen never rests. When not lost in the wonderful lands of her imagination, she finds solace in doting on her three chihuahuas and her endlessly patient husband.
Her short story “Fur’tive” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2 and online.
Jeremy Stelzner, short story “The Birthday Dinner” published in volume 1
JEREMY STELZNER’s stories have appeared in the 2024 Coolest American Stories Anthology, Across the Margin Magazine, Half and One Magazine, The Jewish Literary Journal, the 2023 Stories that Need to be Told anthology, The After Happy Hour Journal of Literature and Art, and he was recently named runner-up for the 2024 Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at the Harvard Extension School and teaches literature and journalism in Maryland. You can reach him by email at [email protected]
His short story “The Birthday Dinner” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 1 and online.
Marcelle Thiébaux, short story “The Twelve Dancing Fairies” published in volume 2
Marcelle Thiébaux has published stories in many literary magazines, The MacGuffin, DecomP, Delmarva Review and elsewhere. Her books on medieval themes include The Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature, The Writings of Medieval Women, and Unruly Princess, a novel. An award-winning writer, she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in New York City.
Her short story “The Twelve Dancing Fairies” appeared in rainy weather days, volume 2.