Another Publisher Falls

It is with great sadness that I see Gehenna and Hinnom Books close their doors.  It showed great promise and churned out 2 beautifully published books and a few magazine issues, one of which I had the privilege of being a part of.  C. P. Dunphey was great to work with.  But it just takes one life crisis to throw everything out of whack and even worse when more just pile on until you are drowning.  Gehenna and Hinnom should be the last thing on his mind and I believe he made a good decision in closing it at this time.  Family and health should, of course, come first.  I wish him and his family the absolute best and hope to see Gehenna and Hinnom Books open its doors once more in the future.  Here is his closing announcement.

With that being said, The Withering was released of its contract and will not be published with Gehenna and Hinnom Books.  To be honest, with the lack of communication from the publisher for so long, I was afraid this would happen and sent off The Withering to another publisher months ago.  I still await their judgment.       

Residents of Innsmouth

My copy of Residents of Innsmouth edited by Russell Smeaton has finally arrived from across the pond.  Residents of Innsmouth was a Kickstarter project created by Russell Smeaton to give life to the residents of H. P. Lovecraft's infamous town of Innsmouth.

Each art piece Russell has created represents a character and a writer creates and develops the character through a story in prose or poetry.  I have three characters with three respective poems, Her Hair is Sunlight, Her Hair is Moonlight, and For Charms, a Crown.

Phil Breach

Scott Couturier

Ashley Dioses

John Paul Fitch

Jill Hand

Shayne Keen

John Linwood Grant

KA Opperman

Alan Sessler

William Tea

Sarah Walker

 

Spaceports & Spidersilk June 2020 by Hiraeth Publishing

My poem reprint, Night Play, appears in the June issue of Spacesports and Spidersilk by Hiraeth Publishing.

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Stories

Flicker by Emmes Duihar

A Boy and His Dragonfly by Tyree Campbell

Jessica Doubt by Anne E. Johnson

Beach Reads by Hugh J. O'Donnell

Space Ballerina by Jason E. Maddux

The Mermaid's Tea Party by Tom Howard

Chasing Snoutfires in the Nantiry Nebula by Jeremy Vance

Salt and Sorcery by Pamela Love

Poetry

Tanka by Lisa Timpf

Off We Go by Lauren McBride

Out to the Sea by Brian Gene Olson

The Fairy Kitten Prowls by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

Dancing with the Stars by T. R. Jones

What is the Meaning of Life? by William Shaw

Night Play by Ashley Dioses

Illustrations

A Boy and His Dragonfly by Laura Givens

Fairy on Fairytale Books by Vonnie Winslow Crist

Features

Who?

Mr. Miyagi's Soggy Cereal by Hybrid Sequence Media

My poems, Pulse and Twitch, appear in Mr. Miyagi's Soggy Cereal by Hybrid Sequence Media.  Pulse and Twitch will appear in Darkest Days and Haunted Ways.

"In a likely fashion of what Hybrid Sequence Media's mission statement says: we take all forms of writing and bring it together in this tribute anthology to honor a friend [Jordan Krall]. This book is far from a soggy breakfast, it's everything mom told you would rot your teeth out, something to cry about, have a few laughs, or maybe even ponder over the words and see the bigger picture in itself."

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The Fifth Di... by Hiraeth Publishing

My reprint poem, Ligeia, appears in the June issue of The Fifth Di... by Hiraeth Publishing. 

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Features

The First Word from the Editor

Interview with Lauren McBride

Who's Who?

Short Stories

A Horse and Her Boy by Vonnie Winslow Crist

JJ by Gregory L. Norris

Sister, Fly or Die by Simone Kern

The Grief Counselor by Debby Feo

Clio's New User by Jason Lairamore

The Contenders by Tyree Campbell

Poetry

Astrology by Holly Day

First Contact by John Grey

Fairy Wine by M. X. Kelly

From Your Friends in Advertising by John Grey

Crying Baby by Peter MacQuarrie

Ligeia by Ashley Dioses