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“Little House on the Ecliptic” recently came out in the Oddity Prodigy Bright Mirror anthology, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?1056049, and “Mrs. Brown’s Day” in the Harvey Duckman Presents anthology On a Different Tuesday, https://harvey-duckman-is-alive.ghost.io/happy-harvey-tuesday/. 

His grown kids David and Elise are too far away, pursuing careers in art therapy and medicine.

G.C. Byrne is an award-winning author and military veteran whose passion for storytelling began in childhood and evolved from hobby to career. He brings a unique blend of life experience and imagination to every story he writes. Byrne is based in Colorado with his wife, Rachel, and two dogs, Hazel and Reggie, where he continues to craft stories that captivate readers throughout this dimension.

Isabel McKeough is a Sydney-based author and a graduate of the Australian Writers Centre. She has a passion for all things science fiction and loves exploring what it means to be human in an alien context. She is currently studying creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney and has fiction published in Flame Tree Press: Of Love & Dragons, AntipodeanSF, Jacaranda Journal and The Miserere Review among others. Find her on social media  @isabelmckeough.writes or visit her website https://www.isabelmckeough.com.au/

Diana Parrilla’s fiction appears with Inkd Publishing, West Avenue, Murderous Ink Press, and others. She won first place in the 2024 Mollie Savage Sci-Fi & Fantasy Contest and received an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Writers of the Future Contest.

Mark Hendrickson (he/him/his) is a gay poet and writer in the Des Moines area using words to navigate the Sturm und Drang of daily life. Mark worked for many years on an acute psychiatric unit. A 2024 Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, his words appear in McNeese Review, Vestal Review, Spellbinder, and others. Follow him @MarkHPoetry, or visit his website: www.markhendricksonpoetry.com

No longer a nationally ranked triathlete and competitive swimmer, he still musters up the gumption to race and sometimes surprises himself. Bob lives and writes within a bike ride of the Atlantic Ocean in the New England region of the United States. Check out Bob’s Facebook page: Facebook

Zachary Taylor Branch is the pen name of a semi-retired scientist and consultant enjoying the good life with his wife Nancy in Lorena, TX. His short story “The Nerine Seven” has been published in Alien Dimensions Anthology Series #26, https://aliendimensions.com/, and “The Gateway” is included in the B Cubed Press Southern Truths anthology, https://bcubedpress.wordpress.com. “Little House on the Ecliptic” recently came out in the Oddity Prodigy Bright Mirror anthology, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?1056049, and “Mrs. Brown’s Day” in the Harvey Duckman Presents anthology On a Different Tuesday, https://harvey-duckman-is-alive.ghost.io/happy-harvey-tuesday/.  His grown kids David and Elise are too far away, pursuing careers in art therapy and medicine.

Born on a Monday, Glen Held grew up in Brooklyn, then was unceremoniously whisked off to Long Island where he still resides with his wife Kathy and the fabulous Eddie the dog! His writing credits include the just published 1930’s adventure Legends in the Earth, the pulp team-up novel, The Devil You Know, the young adult sci-fi tale Way Out World (all three available on Amazon), The Killer –  a short story anthology (available from Gromagon Press) and the mystery/romance novel Burning Secrets (available nowhere.) In addition, he has a number of science fiction and fantasy short stories published in various magazines/anthologies. Glen is retired from a thirty year plus Civil Service career and enjoys travelling as well as watching the Mets – having converted his adult children into fans, thus teaching them the agonies of NY National League baseball.