by Joel R. Hunt Gonzo the Clown trembled on the gallows. The rope rubbed his throat raw, tighter with every nervous gulp. “You know the law,” declared Judge Jolly, “If you make me laugh, you go free.” “Right…” Gonzo squeaked, “Erm… what do you call-” “Louder!” “What do you call a mime in a […]
Liam Hogan is an Oxford Physics graduate whose award winning short story, “Ana”, appears in Best of British Science Fiction 2016. “The Dance of a Thousand Cuts” appears in Best of British Fantasy 2018 (both from NewCon Press). His dark tale “Groomed” appears in “The Twisted Book of Shadows”, from Haverhill House Publishing. He lives and avoids work in London.
Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband Red, two little dogs, and a cat. She has discovered that her love of telling a good story can be written.
Rhiannon Bird is a young Australian author. She has a passion for words and stories. Rhiannon has her own quotes blog; Thoughts of a Writer. She has had multiple works published online and in anthologies which vary between short stories and poetry. Her favourite genres tend to be fantasy or young adult, but she has a complicated relationship with genres and will often jump around to whatever she feels like at the time. Currently, she is in Uni studying animal science while pursuing her writing career on the side.
Hari Navarro has, for many years now, been locked in his neighbour’s cellar. He survives due to an intravenous feed of puréed extreme horror and Absinthe-infused sticky-spiced unicorn wings.
The dream merchant couldn’t complain; business had never been better. Everyone knew he supplied only the richest and sweetest of dreams. What fewer customers realised was that stocks had been running low for months. He had started using his own dreams to keep up with demand. As he refilled the empty storeroom, his daughter ran […]
Josh never thought that he would be a kid-napper. Yet when properly motivated, he’d do anything. They knew just how to manipulate him. No one really believed that it was a Satanic cult that lived at the edge of town. Now he knew better. The authorities didn’t seem to believe him that they had taken […]
Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer who grew up in the mountains of West Virginia.
In 2016 Cindy, along with her husband and sons, made the move from Virginia to the northern woods of Maine and started homesteading.
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore.
SHAWN M. KLIMEK is the author of more than 200 published poems and short stories in several genres. As of June 2021, he is featured in 25 BHP publications and accepted in 10 more.