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TDS proudly presents all of our contributing authors, poets, and artists

(in issue and print order)
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ISSUE 1 (Fall 2019)

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W.C. Mallery (USA)
Grave (Gothic)

Influenced by Christopher Lee movies during Halloween, W.C. Mallery crafted “Grave” to be a dark tale in the Gothic style. Mallery has been a lawyer, a teacher, and a tender of bar. His stories have been published in Tinge Magazine and Junto Magazine.

Gina Easton (Canada)
Tainted Love (Horror)


Gina Easton is a former registered nurse who recently launched her new career as a writer. To date she has had four short-stories accepted for publication in 2019-2020. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband.

Mike Zimmerman (NY)
Chambers (Gothic)

Mike Zimmerman is a writer of short stories and poetry, as well as a middle school writing teacher in East Brooklyn. His work has been published in Cutbank, A & U Magazine, The Painted Bride, Wilde Magazine—to name a few. He is the 2015 recipient of the Oscar Wilde Award from Gival Press, a finalist for the Hewitt Award in 2016, and was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize for his story “Doppelganger” in Two Cities Review. Mike lives in Brooklyn with his husband and their cat.
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David Crerand (NY)
The Village – Part One: The Squire (Horror)


David Crerand enjoys telling stories and has been writing as a hobby for many years. He has been published in Lost Worlds, Crossroads, and Dogwood Tales. His work on The Village comes from a concept piece that involves a series of stand-alone stories based on vampires whose lives are crafted after occupations of typical medieval residents.

POETRY
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Gregory Kimbrell (VA)
​The Dice Throwers and Haishutsuryou (Output)

Gregory Kimbrell is the author of The Primitive Observatory (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), winner of the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in IDK Magazine, Impossible Archetype, The Operating System, Otoliths, Phantom Drift, Quail Bell Magazine, and elsewhere. Kimbrell describes himself as a “queer, furry writer” who uses poetry to explore, and locate his own, sexual and social identity. He sees his writing as a subversive act of myth making, of smashing old worlds and building new ones. His current guiding lights are Aase Berg, Anne Carson, Haruki Murakami, and Armand Schwerner.
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Michael Thomas Ellis (FL)
Beneath These Boards


Michael Thomas Ellis lives on a small suburban plot of land on the Gulf coast of southwest Florida with his wife, three cats, and an increasingly geriatric dog named Gus. He has a few credits to his name. Fittingly enough, he wrote this poem on Halloween night.​​
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Sarah Brown Weitzman (FL)
Vampyre

 
Sarah Brown Weitzman, a past National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry and Pushcart Prize nominee, is widely published in hundreds of journals and anthologies including New Ohio Review, North American Review, The Bellingham Review, Rattle, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, Miramar, Spillway and elsewhere. Her latest chapbook, AMOROTICA, is forthcoming from Darkhouse Press.
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S.M. Cook (OH)
Hell’s Love of Heaven’s Hatred
Folk Song: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1goIsJAGIls
(See bio under Book Serializations)

Katherine Nelson-Born (FL)
Standing Watch


Katherine Nelson-Born is a poet, freelance writer, writing coach, and editor for K&K Manuscript Editing. Katherine earned her Ph.D. at Georgia State University and her MFA in Poetry at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her 2016 poetry chapbook, When Mockingbirds Sing, published by Finishing Line Press, features award-winning poems that set words “free from earth’s orbit, meteors ablaze…firing across the universe.” Katherine’s poems and other creative writing have appeared in numerous literary journals, including the 2017 Emerald Coast Review, Alyss, Birmingham Poetry Review, GSU Review, Ellipsis, Maple Leaf Rag and Penumbra. Her poetry earned “Honorable Mention” at the 2015 Alabama Writers Conclave, placed among finalists in the 1994 & 1996 Agnes Scott College Writer’s Festival, and won the 1990 University of New Orleans/Tennessee Williams Ellipsis award for poetry.

​ART

Christian-Rhen Stefani (CA)
Shadow Still (Cover)


Christian-Rhen Stefani is a professional abstract
artist who has been working in acrylics, clay, oils,
and mixed media for the past 13 years. Her work
has been shown in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Albu-
querque, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
Dee Espinoza (CA)
Preston Castle Play Room


Dee Espinoza is an award-winning photographer and artist. Her artistic vision brings life to the lifeless. This photograph, for instance, is from the Preston Castle (1894), a School of Industry and reform school for wayward boys. Dee’s photograph mixes history with mystery and horror.

BOOK SERIALIZATIONS
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Brenda Stephens (OH)
Vampyre Paladin

Brenda Stephens began writing at six years old, drafting a play for her kindergarten class. She quickly fell into writing and, by the age of fifteen, was the creator of 25 short stories, 2 plays, and 3 screenplays. At sixteen, however, she watched her life’s work burn in an automobile fire, which caused an extreme case of writer’s block and thus ended her fiction writing. After 28 long years of not being able to pen a story, Brenda has finally returned to writing in her preferred gothic and horror genre, though she is stretching her wings with the writing of her first book, Vampyre Paladin. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Anne Rice, she endeavors to create stories that will engage the mind and address social issues. Brenda holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing with a focus in Screenwriting and teaches college composition at two universities in Ohio. She lives with her cat, Kira, and loves to watch anime.
S.M. Cook (OH)
Kyuuketsuki


S.M. Cook began her writing career as a teenager, writing poetry and eventually writing screenplays. She began novel writing in college and fell in love with fictional storytelling. An accomplished poet, Kyuuketsuki is her debut novel that fuses the love of Japanese culture with the love of vampires. At university, Cook majored in Asian Studies with a focus on Japanese language and culture. She lives in Ohio, where she enjoys going to the lake, reading Stephen King and Diana Gabaldon, and watching anime.

ISSUE 2  (Winter 2019)

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David Crerand (NY)
The Village–Part Two: The Three Apprentices (Horror)


David Crerand returns to continue his work on The Village, a concept piece that involves a series of stand-alone stories based on vampires whose lives are crafted after occupations of typical medieval residents. Prior to appearing in The Dark Sire (Issue 1), he was published in Lost Worlds, Crossroads, and Dogwood Tales.
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Frances Tate (England)
Night Harvesters (Gothic-Horror)
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Frances Tate is a self-published vampire writer, and a self-published and published writer of drabbles. She lives in the north west of England where she is working on a series of vampire books that explore the pseudo-science of vampires. When she’s not writing either novels or one hundred-word stories, she experiments with flash and short stories. She has one (long suffering) partner, two fish and a transient population of wild birds and hedgehogs to feed. She enjoys curry, cinema, reading, gardening, exploring historical sites and travelling.
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Carl Hughes (England)
The Mask (Gothic-Horror)
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Carl Hughes is an award-winning writer whose fiction and non-fiction has been published in newspapers, anthologies and magazines worldwide. He has also won many writing competitions and has worked for the national and provincial press in his own country, as well as for television and radio. He lives in the county of Norfolk, England, with wife Linda and specialises in writing horror, the offbeat and bizarre. More of his stories can be read in ‘Lester’s Locket & Other Horrors’, ‘That’s Your Funeral & Other Horrors’, among other ebooks.
John Kiste (OH)
Kettering Hall (Gothic)


John Kiste is a Massillon Museum board member who was previously the president of the Stark County Convention & Visitors’ Bureau. He is an organ donation ambassador, a McKinley Museum planetarian, and an Edgar Allan Poe impersonator. Previous publications include A Shadow of Autumn, Modern Grimoire, and Dark Fire Fiction (among others). His awards include Camden Press’s 2019 winner of the Preditors and Editors readers’ poll for best anthology and the League of Utah Writers Silver Quill, Quoth the Raven.

Amanda Crum (KY)
A Metamorphosis (Horror)

Amanda Crum is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in Barren Magazine, Eastern Iowa Review, and several anthologies, including Beyond the Hill and Two Eyes Open. She is the author of two novels, The Fireman’s Daughter and The Darkened Mirror. Her chapbook of horror-inspired poetry, The Madness in Our Marrow, was shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award nomination in 2015, while her story “A Shimmer In The Parlor” was a finalist for the J.F. Powers Prize in Short Fiction in 2019. She currently lives in Kentucky with her husband and two children.

POETRY
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Clay Hunt (CA)
A Red Witch

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Clay Hunt is a poet from the wastelands of Modesto, California. He has works published in the literary journals Penumbra and Song of the San Joaquin. His father had various mental illnesses and Hunt himself battles with ADHD. A Red Witch was inspired by a meeting with a specific person who was physically sick, as well as having a manic episode. The poem became cursed and spawned into its own entity, but the initial meeting with Hunt's friend inspired this writing.

Bartholomew Barker (NC)
Silence

Folk Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu4jhDG2734

Bartholomew Barker is a poet whose first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. Born and raised in Ohio, he now lives and works in North Carolina.
C. Christine Fair (USA)
A Brother’s Revenge

Folk Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1jL3tqNHjI

C. Christine Fair is a professor of security studies at Georgetown University. Her most recent book is In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (OUP, 2019). She is a published poet, with poetry in such publications as The Bark, Clementine Unbound, The Dime Show Review, and Awakenings (among other venues).
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Ethan McGuire (FL)
The Reaper’s Revelation
Folk Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYgIrE3Tcl8

Ethan McGuire grew up in the mystical Missouri Ozarks, but eight years ago he moved to the Florida Panhandle, and life near the Gulf of Mexico has had a profound effect on him. By day, he is a healthcare information technology professional. By night, he is a writer. Ethan is a proud member of the West Florida Literary Federation and has written for TheEdBlog, Three Rows Back, Inscriptions Writing Club, and The Legend.

​ART

Doria Walsh (PA)
Rorschach (COVER)


Doria Walsh is a self-taught artist living in Harrisburg, PA. Formerly a realistic pastel painter, Doria found making abstracts with fluid mediums made her feel peaceful and present. She experiments with chemistry and its effects on her inks and paints as if in a laboratory. Because fluid mediums can be chaotic and unpredictable, there is no way to anticipate what will occur. It becomes a deeply internal process because the artist must surrender to physics – to an extent.
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Dee Espinoza (CA)
The Guardian


Dee Espinoza is a self-taught photographer, artist, and writer. She debuted in the first edition of TDS. Photography is SO much more to her than just “capturing a moment”. It allows her to introduce herself to the world in a way that shows the viewer what she is about and how photography fits into her life.
Paula Korkiamäki (Finland)
Lonely Soul
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Paula Korkiamäki intuitively paints art with heart. She uses alcohol inks, digitally finishing some of her paintings. Her art often shows the universe and the spirit world - the home of the soul. Other works discuss the subconscious mind and intuition.

BOOK SERIALIZATIONS
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Brenda Stephens (OH)
Vampyre Paladin

Brenda Stephens returns from her debut in Issue 1 of The Dark Sire with the continuation of her novel serialization, Vampyre Paladin. Though she is hard-at-work on Paladin, Brenda is better known for her gothic and horror short fiction. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Anne Rice, she endeavors to create stories that will engage the mind and address social issues of the 21st-Century. Brenda holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing with a focus in Screenwriting and teaches college composition at two universities in Ohio. She lives with her cat, Kira, and loves to watch anime.
S.M. Cook (OH)
Kyuuketsuki


S.M. Cook returns to continue her work on Kyuuketsuki, a serialization that debuted in Issue 1 of The Dark Sire. No stranger to writing, Cook is known for her poetry and screenplays, though Kyuuketsuki is her debut novel that fuses the love of Japanese culture with the love of vampires. She lives in Ohio, where she enjoys going to the lake, reading Stephen King and Diana Gabaldon, and watching anime.

ISSUE 3  (Summer 2020)

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David Crerand (NY)
The Village–Part Three: The Baroness (Horror)


David Crerand continues his work on The Village, a concept piece that involves a series of stand-alone stories based on vampires whose lives are crafted after occupations of typical medieval residents. He has been a staple of The Dark Sire since its debut, as well as had his work published in Lost Worlds, Crossroads, and Dogwood Tales.
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Ian Richardson (England)
Sharps (psychological-Horror)


Ian Richardson is a London-based UK author He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has published in numerous literary magazines and fantasy anthologies. He resumed writing and acting in 2012 after a near-death incident. There were no bright lights or tunnels involved, but he did, after recovering, become briefly obsessed with dancing around his living room to Melina Mercouri singing ‘Ta pedia tou Pirea’.

Gregory J. Glanz (USA)
Shroud of Darkness (Fantasy)

Gregory J. Glanz is an IT and network consultant in the Midwest. For the past 4 years he has been involved in writing a series of award-winning independent documentaries on rural, generational Irish pubs. He is a homebrewer whose goal is to be able to dunk a basketball when he turns 60. His short story, A War of the Mind, was recently published in Blood and Bourbon.
Maureen Mancini Amaturo (NY)
Once Bitten: The Vampire's Lament (Gothic)


Maureen Mancini Amaturo, New York based fashion/beauty writer and columnist, holds an MFA in Creative Writing, teaches writing, leads a writing group she founded in 2007, produces literary events, and has had fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, humor, short stories, articles, and celebrity interviews published in many journals, magazines, and anthologies.
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Andrea Goyan (CA)
Lifetime Guarantee (Psychological Realism)


Andrea Goyan is a writer, actress, and Master Pilates Teacher. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and online magazines, including the December 2019 issue of The Sirens Call, Halloween Party 2019, Loss: An Anthology, Dirty Girls Magazine (May 2019), and Newfound Journal (October 2018), and she was shortlisted for the 2019 Anton Chekhov Award for Very Short Fiction. She’s an accomplished playwright with over a dozen works produced. Andrea lives in Los Angeles with her husband, a dog, and two cats.
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POETRY
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Andrew Oram (MA)
The Path of Darkness


Andrew Oram is a writer and editor in the computer field. His editorial projects have ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, and Vanguardia Dossier. He has lived in the Boston, Massachusetts area for more than 30 years. His poems have been published in Ají, Arlington Literary Journal, DASH, Genre: Urban Arts, Offcourse, Panoply, Soul-Lit, and Speckled Trout Review.
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Michael Walker (OH)
Progeny

Michael Walker is a writer, artist, musician living in Newark Ohio. He is the author of two novels: 7-22, a YA fantasy novel, and The Vampire Henry, a literary horror novel. He has also seen his poetry and short stories published in various magazines, including Adelaide Literary Magazine, Fiction Southeast, and PIF.
Jessica Van de Kemp (Canada)
Bone-Man

Jessica Van de Kemp is an award-winning teacher, poet, and PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Daughters in the Dead Land (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Spirit Light (The Steel Chisel, 2015).
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Gregory E. Lucas (USA)
The Vision

Gregory E. Lucas writes fiction and poetry. His short short stories and poems have appeared in many magazines such as The Horror Zine, Pif, The Ekphrastic Review, Yellow Mama, and Blue Unicorn.


​FEATURED ARTIST

Shaun Power (England)
We Have the Power in Our Hands (COVER), 
Never Speak to Psychopaths, Leave a Light On, The Grove, The Way to Merriaden, Somehow I’ll Find My Way Home, One Dark Night, Ring a Ring O Roses, You Have No Idea What You Have Done, Fleating Glimpse, Just a Walk in the Rain.

Shaun Power is a self-taught pastel artist. Before pastels, he tried other mediums but found that the process took too long for his working pace. He started painting about 4 years ago as a form of therapy for Bipolar Disorder, finding that expressing his feelings, blending the pastels with his fingers, and seeing the finished picture was very cathartic. The look, even the style of his pictures, varies wildly depending on his state of mind, with some imagery being very dark and others quite uplifting. Shocked by the intimacy in which people connect with his work, he firmly believes that it is the viewer that creates the magic. 

BOOK SERIALIZATIONS
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Brenda Stephens (OH)
Vampyre Paladin

Brenda Stephens is a gothic and horror short fiction writer who’s influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Anne Rice. She holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing with a focus in Screenwriting and teaches college composition at two universities in Ohio.
S.M. Cook (OH)
Kyuuketsuki


S.M. Cook is known for her poetry and screenplays. Her current work fuses her love of vampires and Japanese culture. She debuted in Issue 1 of TDS with a book serialization and her poem Hell’s Love of Heaven’s Hatred, which was composed into a folk song by Fernando Fidanza. An original native of New York, she lives in Ohio, where she enjoys going to the lake, reading Stephen King and Diana Gabaldon, and watching anime.

ISSUE 4  (Summer 2020)

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Leilani Ahia (KS)
Innards (Horror)

Leilani Ahia is a horror enthusiast. She lives out her mortal days in Kansas City with her wife and two cats. She remains in contact with this dimension via her twitter.

​David Crerand (NY)
The Village–Part IV: The Orphan (Horror)


David Crerand continues his work on The Village, a concept piece that involves a series of stand-alone stories based on vampires whose lives are crafted after occupations of typical medieval residents. He has been a staple of The Dark Sire since its debut, as well as had his work published in Lost Worlds, Crossroads, and Dogwood Tales.
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​Jeremy Zentner (IL)
In Service (Psychological-Horror)


Jeremy Zentner has published short stories in science fiction and supernatural fiction. He was the recipient of the Lois C. Bruner award in nonfiction and lives in Central Illinois, USA.
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​Gregory J. Glanz (USA)
Descent into Darkness (Fantasy)

Gregory J. Glanz returns to TDS to continue the story of Wank from the original short story “Shroud of Darkness” (Issue 3). When not writing, he is an IT and network consultant in the Midwest. For the past 4 years he has been involved in writing a series of award-winning independent documentaries on rural, generational Irish pubs. He is a homebrewer whose goal is to be able to dunk a basketball when he turns 60. His short story, A War of the Mind, was published in Blood and Bourbon.​
Gina Easton (Canada)
Skin Tight (Horror)


Gina Easton has had several short stories published in horror anthologies and magazines over the past year. She also has two novels in the horror/dark fantasy genre scheduled for release in 2020-21. She lives in Toronto, Canada.​
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Darlene Eliot (CA)
Pigeon (Psychological Realism)

Darlene Eliot was born in Canada and grew up in Southern California. After working as a social worker, a teacher, and an acquisitions library clerk, she succumbed to a staggering case of wanderlust and the desire to avoid open office space at all costs. Writing addressed both issues and also allowed her to explore dark subjects without reserve. Darlene lives in Northern California with someone she adores, loves watching the weather change hourly, and writing short fiction that is dark around the edges.
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Anthony Santiago (RI)
The Heart of Living Flame (Fantasy)

Anthony Santiago is an emerging author, this being his first published story. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lives with his family, he’s a recent graduate of Emerson College's Popular Fiction M.F.A Program. He looks forward to further sharing his stories with the rest of the world.
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POETRY
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​John Grey (Australia)
The Wold Confesses

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. His work was recently published in Hawaii Pacific Review, Dalhousie Review, and Qwerty, with work upcoming in Blueline, Willard and Maple, and Clade Song. He won the Rhysling Award for short genre poetry.

Dee Espinoza (CA)
Come Back

Dee Espinoza is an eclectic artist. Her photography was featured in books one and two of TDS. She has recently stepped out of her comfort zone to share her writings with the public.

Leland James (USA)
If You Have Ever Known a Monster

Leland James is the author of five books of poetry, four children’s books in verse, and a book on poetry craft. He has published over 300 poems in poetry venues worldwide including Rattle, The Lyric, The South Carolina Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Atlanta Review, New Millennium Writings, HQ The Haiku Quarterly, and The London Magazine. He was the winner of The UK’s Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and the Writer’s Forum short poem contest. He has won or received honors in many other competitions, has been featured in Ted Koszer’s American Life in Poetry, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Daramola O. Femi (Nigeria)
Maybe There Is a Devil

Daramola O. Femi studies Sociology and Anthropology at Obafemi Awolowo University. He believes in the deepness of art, and the beauteousness of imagination, especially dark poetry because it comes from the soul and governs the body. His work has featured in SocioTell, Dirwords, anthologies, and across the web.
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Krista Canterbury Adams (OH)
Erebus: Darkness

Krista Canterbury Adams has studied poetry at Ohio Dominican University and The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Her poem “Resurrection” was published in print and online. She also has a six-poem series that was printed this past spring in AHF Magazine & published in Carmina Magazine’s March edition. Her work is always inspired by Anne Rice, Poe, H.D. & Algernon Blackwood.
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​ART

Dena Simard (USA)
Welcome Back to the World

Dena Simard is a 56-year-old accountant who yearns to make art. She began painting in 2019 and chose watercolors because she wanted to challenge herself – and heard watercolor was the hardest. She then discovered alcohol inks in 2020 and started dabbling in that. Dena has sold a few watercolor paintings to friends who have requested pet portraits. Other than that, she creates art to settle the right side of her brain, which, besides painting, includes jewelry making and scrapbooking.

Kibbi Linga (CA)
My Story

Kibbi Linga is a self-taught artist from Los Angeles, California. She began painting in early 2019, during the "darkest days" of her PTSD flashbacks and trauma recovery. Painting became second nature for Kibbi right away, as each painting healed some of her heart's pain. Each painting has its own story, usually representing an emotion, relationship or flashback. While not painting, she loves friendships, music, dancing and spontaneity. Kibbi intends to spread love and light through her art, meanwhile inspiring others with a message of hope, unity and resilience. Kibbi says that she has seen dark and that she has seen light. She chooses the light.

Brian Michael Barbeito (USA)
Church

Brian Michael Barbeito is a nature poet, essayist, fiction writer, and landscape photographer. Recent work appear in Fiction International and CV2 The Canadian Journal of Critical Writing and Poetry. Brian has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and one Best of the Net award. He is the author of Chalk Lines (Fowl Pox Press, 2013) and currently at work on Mosaics, Journeys through Landscapes Urban and Rural.
Shaun Power (England)
There Came a Rapping as if Something Gently Tapping ​at My Chamber Door; I Guess You Know My Name; Forever; A Moment before the Storm

Shaun Power is a self-taught pastel artist. He started painting about 4 years ago as a form of therapy for Bipolar Disorder, finding that expressing his feelings, blending the pastels with his fingers, and seeing the finished picture was very cathar- tic. His work varies wildly depending on his state of mind, from very dark to quite uplifting. He firmly believes that it’s the viewer that creates the magic.
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Juhi Ranjan (CA)
Memories of Abalone Diving

Dr. Juhi Ranjan is a self-taught artist who uses fluid art to create abstract compositions that are inspired by her own life experiences and desires.
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Lam Jasmine Bauman (AK)
Fire Lily

Lam Jasmine Bauman is a self-taught abstract artist focusing on acrylic fluid arts. She currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansa with her husband and two hounds.
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BOOK SERIALIZATIONS
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Frances Tate (England)
The Last Summer

Frances Tate is a self-published vampire writer, and a self-published and published writer of drabbles. She lives in the north west of England where she is working on a series of vampire books that explore the pseudo-science of vampires. When she’s not writing either novels or one-hundred-word stories, she experiments with flash and short stories. She has one (long suffering) partner, two fish and a transient population of wild birds and hedgehogs to feed. She enjoys curry, cinema, reading, gardening, exploring historical sites and travelling.

S.M. Cook (OH)
Kyuuketsuki

S.M. Cook is known for her poetry and screenplays. Her current work fuses her love of vampires and Japanese culture. She debuted in Issue 1 of TDS with a book serialization and her poem Hell’s Love of Heaven’s Hatred, which was composed into a folk song by Fernando Fidanza. An original native of New York, she lives in Ohio, where she enjoys going to the lake, reading Stephen King and Diana Gabaldon, and watching anime.
Brenda Stephens (OH)
Vampyre Paladin

Brenda Stephens is a gothic and horror short fiction writer who’s influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Anne Rice. She crafted her first play at 6 years old and accumulated a huge collection of short stories by age 15. However, at 16, she watched her work burn in a freak car fire. Afterwards, she couldn’t find the creative muse to write another short story, though she continued to write screenplays. Over 20 years later, she’s finally writing again. She holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing with a focus in Screenwriting and teaches college composition at two Ohio universities.​
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