Nora Rawn
Silting the Cold Sea
Issue 01
Silt
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Our Dearly Departed
Leah M. Skay
If You’re Keen on Bein’ Nosy, I’m Talkin’ to Kyle
Leah M. Skay is an author from Delaware, now willfully trapped in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is available at leahskay.com.
A. Vilmos
Never Again the Same or Still
Elif Sinem Erdem
INTERFACE
Elif Sinem Erdem is a Turkish-Austrian writer. When she’s not toiling away at her corporate job, she can usually be found at a movie theater. Her writing has previously appeared on Stereogum, PopMatters, and Blue Moon Review among others. She runs a blog on pop music and is still on Twitter at @nymphspond. She lives in Vienna.
Robert Wooten
I’m Going to a Third World Country
Robert Wooten has had poetry recently appear in Underwood Press (Dark Literature), Blood Moon Rising, Apocalypse Confidential, and Dreams AND Nightmares. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama (1998) and earned an MA in English with a creative writing focus at North Carolina State University (1994). He was awarded first prize in the winter 2021–22 Dream Quest One competition.
Dan Berick
This Dust of Thoughts
Dan Berick is a writer in Cleveland, Ohio, a husband, father, and lawyer, and a graduate of Columbia University and The University of Chicago. His recent work has appeared in Gulf Stream Magazine, The Storms, The Interpreter’s House, One ART, Epistemic Literary, The Pierian, Stone Poetry Quarterly, The Rivanna Review, FULL HOUSE Literary, 34th Parallel Magazine, Cerasus Poetry Magazine, Citywide Lunch, October Hill Magazine, Thin Skin, Argyle Literary Magazine, Santa Barbara Literary Journal, The Monterey Poetry Review, Ghost Light Lit, The Last Syllable, Canary, The Penmen Review, Cable Street, and Penumbra, and is forthcoming in Blinker Literary and The Lisbon Literary Review.
Shannon Weston
WE FOLLOW THE RIVER
Shannon Weston (she/her) is an author based in Portland, Oregon. She has a penchant for the speculative and the mysterious. When she isn’t writing, there’s a good chance she’s making up ridiculous nicknames for her rescue dog. You can keep up with her at @shanwestonwrites on Bluesky and Instagram.
Alexei Raymond
Zagagulyn
Alexei Raymond, shaped by life and love in the Middle East, chases visions of unspeakable loveliness. Find pieces of him in a variety of publications.
Paul Allatson
Your River
Paul Allatson is a writer currently living on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, in what is called Sydney. His poetry and prose have been published in anthologies and literary outlets in Australia, the UK and the USA.
Camille Singer
Forgetting
Camille Singer is a genre fiction writer and artist. She lives in North Carolina where she homeschools her young children. Her short fiction has been published in The Colored Lens Magazine.
Shrutidhora P Mohor
AQUARIUM LIFE
Shrutidhora P Mohor (born 1979, India) writes literary fiction. She has been listed in several competitions like the Bristol Short Story Prize, Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, the George Floyd Short Story competition, the Retreat West Micro fiction competitions, the Retreat West Annual Prize for short story, the Reflex Fiction competition, and Flash 500. Her writings have been nominated for Best Microfictions 2023 and the Pushcart Prize 2024 and are a part of several anthologies. A collection of short stories titled A Moon-Measure of All Things (Alien Buddha Press, February 2025) is her latest book publication. In 2026 she has been published or is forthcoming in Aeos Magazine, La Rotonde Review, Pembroke Magazine, Ellipsis Zine, Anomalous Press (ANMLY), Palmetto Row Magazine, The Gorko Gazette, Dodo Eraser, Tap Into Poetry, The Airgonaut Magazine, Revolution John, Free Flash Fiction, Some Words, Guestbook Zine, The Hooghly Magazine, Deadbeat Anti-Lit Magazine, Serious Lit Mag, Gopnik Press, The Wise Owl, among others. Mohor is the pen name for Prothoma Rai Chaudhuri, Faculty, Department of Political Science, St Xavier’s College, Calcutta.
Zoë Davis
Death cracks His hourglass like an egg
Zoë Davis is a writer from Sheffield, England. She lives with FND and fights what her body says she can’t do by playing wheelchair rugby league. She writes poetry and prose, and especially enjoys exploring the interaction between the fantastical and the mundane, with a deeply personal edge to her work. You can find her words, current and forthcoming, in publications such as Carmen et Error, Bending Genres, jmww and Ink Sweat & Tears. You can follow her on X and Bluesky @MeanerHarker.
Naa Ashitey
Thank you, Zoloft
Naa Ashitey is a Chicago-born writer and MD–PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A first-generation, low-income Ghanaian-American and University of Chicago alumna, she writes at the intersection of race, medicine, and belonging.
Her creative and editorial writing examines how policy, media, and academia reproduce structural violence—and what it means to resist with truth. Her creative work appears or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Hobart, Brittle Paper, Heavy Feather Review, BULL and editorials for The Xylom, MedPage Today and KevinMD. She has been nominated for multiple awards, including Best Small Fiction, and was a finalist for the Claire Keyes Poetry Award.
Harm Deacon
Ghost Ship
Luke Janicki
Apace
Luke Janicki lives in Seattle, Washington. His book Gunny Sack was a semi-finalist for the 2026 Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press. He was nominated for Best of the Net 2025. He has published poetry in Trampset, Funicular Magazine, Ghost City Review, JMWW, The Milk House, DIALOGIST, and other publications. He holds a B.A. from Gonzaga University and an M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame.
Z. T. Fairfax
The Absolution of St. Sebastian II
Z. T. Fairfax is a fiction author, illustrator, and award-winning former editor. His work has appeared in FLARE, The Bloomin’ Onion, Yellow Mama, GONZOID, La Rotonde Review, The Haikuist, Alien Buddha Zine, The Gorko Gazette, and Citywide Lunch. His Muppet-inspired horror novel, The Hugglebeez, is represented by Amy Stern of The Sheldon Fogelman Agency.
Amanda Dodge
Wanting
Amanda Dodge is an author of magical realism and speculative fiction with short fiction featured in Kaleidoscopic Quill: An Inspiring Butterfly Anthology and Silly Goose Press’s MELT edition, and poetry in Chat Log and the Haikuist. For the past eight years, Amanda has worked as a full-time ghostwriter and developmental editor based in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.