You have been served today at the "Sein Inn - Gas, Food and Lodgings" by the following valued members of staff:
Allen Ashley
Guest Editor and General Manager
This is Allen's third outing as a guest editor for Sein und Werden. Allen is an award-winning editor and writer and, when Rachel Kendall is editing, a "Sein" regular. Allen's most recent book is the poetry collection Echoes from an Expired Earth *Demain Publishing, 2021) - available on Amazon. Allen is a British Fantasy Award winner and is the founder of the advanced SF/F group Clockhouse London Writers.
Jenean McBrearty
Photo: "Car Sign". Pump Station, taken in 1995 in Brawley, California, a small desert town in California's Imperial Valley.
Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University, who taught Political Science and Sociology, and received her MFA from Eastern Kentucky University. Her fiction, poetry, and photographs have been published in over two-hundred-fifty print and on-line journals. Her how-to book, Writing Beyond the Self; How to Write Creative Non-fiction that Gets Published was published by Vine Leaves Press in 2018. She won the Eastern Kentucky English Department Award for Graduate Creative Non-fiction in 2011, and a Silver Pen Award in 2015 for her noir short story: Red's Not Your Color.
Ellaraine Lockie
Poems - "Out of the East…" and "Breaking the Rules"
Ellaraine Lockie is widely published and awarded as a poet, nonfiction and flash fiction author and essayist. Chapbook collections have won Poetry Forum's Chapbook Contest Prize, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Chapbook Competition, Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest, Best Individual Poetry Collection Award from Purple Patch magazine in England, and The Aurorean's Chapbook Choice Award. ways onto broadsides, buses, rented cars, bicycles, cabins, greeting cards, key chains, bookmarks, mugs, coffee sack labels, church bulletins, radio shows and cable TV. She also teaches writing workshops and serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, LILIPOH.
Gary Budgen
Story - "Sister Gasoline"
Gary Budgen is a London based writer. He has had fiction published in many magazines and anthologies including BFS award short-listed Humanagerie from Eibonvale Press. His collection of short stories, Chrysalis is published by Horrified Press and his chapbook Fragments of Onyx by Salo Press. He is a member of Clockhouse London Writers. For more information visit https://garybudgen.wordpress.com/
Julie Blankenship
Two images:
Mobil - anonymous photograph, circa 1960's, from the collection of Julie Blankenship
Conoco - anonymous photograph, circa1970's, from the collection of Julie Blankenship
'Julie Blankenships publications include Blood Bath, Poets and Writers Magazine, cover of Egaeus Press' Of One Pure Will, and (upcoming) Vastarien. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute; and founded Visual Aid Gallery. Exhibitions include Amsterdam Center for Photography; AIA-SF Center for Architecture and Design Gallery and Walter/McBean Gallery.
Mary Cresswell
Poem - "Calling the Thunder God"
Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and has lived on New Zealand's Kapiti Coast for many years. Her poems are in NZ, US, UK and Australian journals; recent books are 'Fish Stories: Ghazals and Glosas' (Canterbury University Press) and 'Body Politic: Nature poems for nature in crisis' (The Cuba Press). See also: www.read-nz.org/writer/cresswell-mary/
Robbie Gamble
Poem - "Promised Land Truck Stop"
Robbie Gamble's poems have appeared in Slipstream, Pacifica Literary Review, Whale Road Review, and Rust + Moth. He was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry prize. He worked for many years as a nurse practitioner caring for homeless people, and now divides his time between Boston and Vermont.
Stephen Oram
Story - "Shame Stains"
Stephen Oram's near-future fiction has been praised by publications as diverse as The Morning Star and The Financial Times. He is published in several anthologies, has two published novels and two collection of sci-fi shorts.
Douglas Thompson
Story - "Bed Hopper"
Douglas Thompson has published 14 novels and collections of short stories and poetry since 2009, from various publishers in Britain, Europe and America, and will be translated into German and Portuguese in 2022. His novels 'The Suicide Machine' and 'Barking Circus' are available in paperback from Zagava of Dusseldorf.
A N Myers
Story - "Into the Bleak"
A.N. Myers lives in London. He has won, and been shortlisted, for several literary prizes, including Momaya, Dark Tales, and Hammond House International Literary Prize, and his short fiction has appeared in publications including 101 Fiction, Speculative66, the Eibonvale Press Anthology "The Once and Future Moon", and most recently, BFS Horizons. His YA science fiction novel, "The Ides", is available from Amazon. He is a member of Clockhouse London Writers.
priyanuj
Poem - "watching the world burn"
priyanuj is a 24-year-old novelist and poet, having completed his MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University, London, in 2020. An official finalist at the Dante Rosetti Awards 2013 in the YA Fiction category, he is currently working on a novel and a collection of poetry, both exploring the complexities of identity, taboo and mental health, in his hometown Guwahati, India.
Ed Ruzicka
Poem - "Lantry, Loaded with Sky"
Find Ed Ruzicka's many takes on the rocky marriage between freedom and the American highway in his second book "My Life in Cars." Ed's poems have appeared in the Xavier Review, Rattle, and Canary as well as myriad other literary journals and anthologies. Raised amid Illinois cornfields, Ed is an occupational therapist who lives with his wife, Renee, in Baton Rouge, LA.More at: edrpoet.com/poems.html
Kate Meyer-Currey
Story - "At The Teenage Girls' Filling Station's Last Reunion"
Kate Meyer-Currey was born in 1969 and moved to Devon in 1973. A varied career in frontline settings has fuelled her interest in gritty urbanism, contrasted with a rural upbringing, whilst her ADHD instils a sense of 'other' in her writing. She has over fifty
poems in print and e journals.
'Gloves' recently made top 100 in the UK's 'PoetryforGood' competition for healthcare workers.
Her first chapbook 'County Lines' (Dancing Girl Press) comes out this year.
Charles March
Selection of five road photos
Charles J. March III is a neurodivergent hospital corpsman veteran currently living in California. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Black Scat Review, Sulfur "Surrealist Jungle," Fugitives & Futurists, Problématique, Mercurius Magazine, Seiren, Apocalypse Confidential, Back Patio Press, etc. More can be found at LinkedIn and SoundCloud.
Ken Poyner
Poems - "Last Chance Diner" and "System's Last Stop"
More from Ken as follows: Books:
Engaging Cattle, mini-fictions
The Revenge of the House Hurlers, mini-fictions
Avenging Cartography, mini-fictions
Constant Animals, mini-fictions
The Book of Robot, speculative poetry
Victims of a Failed Civics, speculative poetry
www.kpoyner.com
www.barkingmoosepress.com
David Hartley
Story - "Mind How You Go"
David Hartley writes weird short stories about people and animals. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester. His latest short story collection is 'Fauna' (Fly on the Wall Press), a dark and twisted bestiary of vegan tales for a catastrophic age. He tweets at @DHartleyWriter and blogs at www.davidhartleywriter.com.
John Thomas Allen
Poem - "Roswell Construction"
John Thomas Allen is from New York. His latest book entitled Lumière was published by NightBallet Press in 2014. His poems have appeared in Veil: a Journal of Dark Musings, Arsenic Lobster Magazine, Sulfur, Mad Verse, The Cimarron Review, etc., and he has a story in the anthology titled Narrow Doors in Wide Green Fields edited by RW. Spryszak. In 2019, he won James Tate Prize for his chapbook entitled Rolling in the Third Eye, which was subsequently published by SurVision Books in 2020.
John Grey
Poem - "A Fear of Coming Up Empty"
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Orbis, Dalhousie Review and the Round Table. Latest books, "Leaves On Pages" and "Memory Outside The Head" are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Lana Turner and Hollins Critic.
Tiel Aisha Ansari
Poem - "Last Chance Dance"
Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi warrior poet. Her work has been featured by Fault Lines Poetry, Windfall, KBOO and an Everyman's Library anthology, among others. Her collections include Knocking from Inside, High-Voltage Lines, Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable, The Day of My First Driving Lesson, and Dervish Lions (forthcoming from Fernwood Books). She works as a data analyst for the Portland Public School district and is president emerita of the Oregon Poetry Association. She hosts the Wider Window Poetry show on KBOO Community Radio, www.kboo.fm/program/wider-window-poetry. Visit her online at knockingfrominside.blogspot.com.
Sarah Doyle
Poem - "Peripherals"
Sarah Doyle is the Pre-Raphaelite Society's Poet-in-Residence, and is widely placed and published, with a pamphlet of collage poetry inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth's journals - Something so wild and new in this feeling - published by V. Press in March 2021. She is currently researching a PhD in meteorological poetry at Birmingham City University.
Judy DeCroce
Poem - "Tornado"
Judy DeCroce, is an internationally published poet, flash fiction writer, educator, and professional storyteller whose works have been published by The BeZINE, The Front Porch Review, North of Oxford, The Poet Magazine, Amethyst Review, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, and many other journals and anthologies.
Lou Ventura
Poem - "Drive"
Lou Ventura lives in Olean, New York and has been a secondary school English teacher for 35 years. His first poetry collection, Bones So Close to Telling, has recently been accepted for publication by Foothills Publishing.
Nick Young
Story - "Exhibition"
Nick Young is an award-winning retired journalist whose career included twenty years as a CBS News correspondent. His short stories have appeared in the San Antonio Review, CafeLit Magazine, Fiery Scribe Review and Vols. I and II of the Writer Shed Stories anthologies.
Robin Riback
Story - "The Return"
Robin Riback, author of The Return, has crafted a psychological thriller to facilitate her recovery from watching the movie "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" when she was a young child. Her interests include theater as well as mystery and suspense, literary fiction, comedy, opera, and self-improvement articles. She writes short fiction in a poetry-prose style. She also publishes humor driven self-help articles. She received her B.A in English at Rutgers University, Douglass College in 1982 where she became a lifelong fan of Russian and modernist authors such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Adrienne Rich, to name just a few. She considers herself a lover of indoor activities where she expertly avoids the perils of hiking, bugs, and sun.
For some of the lighter side, you can find her humor driven self-help articles here: https://rriback7k.medium.com/
G.J. Haines
Story - "Tooth Ache"
GJ Haines is a writer, which surprises him. Icy was published by The British Fantasy Society in 2019. This was the beginning. He has written for Warlord Games www.warlordgames.com/poisoned-point-and-ancient-sword-saxon-warlords/. And fantasy horror for Petersen Game petersengames.com/download/the-prey/. He is a Carlyle Member of The London Library and a member of the Clockhouse London Writers Group.
Gregg Willard
Story - "The Donkey Ho Garage"
Gregg Williard teaches English to refugees in Madison, Wisconsin. His writing and visual art have been published most recently in Conjunctions, The Rupture, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah and New England Review. He does a long running book-reading radio show, "Fiction Jones" on WORT fm.
Diana Magallón
Artwork - "fuel"
Jonathan Penton said, "Diana Magallón's drawings are delightful in their simplicity. Her friendly lines and uplifting designs immediately pull one in, bringing accessibility and comfort to the form. At the same time, she demonstrates layers of meaning and subtlety, quietly transforming our view as we continue to contemplate her work. Her backgrounds brings forth the sophisticated joy in each piece."
Her art has been present in Unlikely Stories, Word for Word, Rigorous, Eratio, Microbe, compostxts, The New Postliterate, Otoliths, Sein und Werden, Die Leere Mitte, Utsanga, etc, etc
Mark Howard Jones
Story - "Thoughts of the Sea"
Mark Howard Jones was born in a town in south Wales where it once rained fish. He has had dozens of short stories published around the world, some of which are collected in Songs From Spider Street (Screaming Dreams), Brightest Black (Screaming Dreams), Dreamglass Days (ISMs Press) and Flowers Of War (Black Shuck).
Mary Petralia
Prose - "lil zaftig amatorculist pop quiz"
Poem - "What Ever Happened to Heather"
Mary Petralia completed an MFA at UCF in Orlando a few years ago. A former high school teacher and dialysis worker, she currently works providing emergency meals in Seattle while she creates visual art, crochets amigurumi, feeds balcony juncos, and enjoys her children. Her poems have appeared in Gone Lawn, Bridge Eight, Shooter Literary Magazine, Eyedrum Periodically, and other publications.
Michael Murray
Poem - "Dick Tracy, Shaman of the North"
GIFTS OF RINGS AND GOLD on Kindle now.
David P. Miller
Poem - "Like Water Unwalled"
David P. Miller's collection, Sprawled Asleep, was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2019. His chapbook, The Afterimages, was published by Červená Barva Press in 2014. Poems have recently appeared in Meat for Tea, Hawaii Pacific Review, Turtle Island Quarterly, Clementine Unbound, Constellations, J Journal, The Lily Poetry Review, Ibbetson Street, Redheaded Stepchild, The Blue Pages, and What Rough Beast, among others. He is a member of the Jamaica Pond Poets. His poem "Add One Father to Earth" was awarded an Honorable Mention by Robert Pinsky for the New England Poetry Club's 2019 Samuel Washington Allen Prize competition. With a background in experimental theater before turning to poetry, David was a member of Boston's multidisciplinary Mobius Artists Group for 25 years. He was a librarian at Curry College in Massachusetts, from which he retired in June 2018.
I J Fenn
Story - "post-it note lexicon of the eighteenth century"
IJ Fenn writes stories for fun and has been published three times since 2006. Fenn is currently finalising a miserable novel befitting our current COVID times, has a volume of short stories under consideration with a publisher in the UK, and is mapping out two further novel outlines.
On a personal level, Fenn has no life worth talking about, drinks tea to excess, is neither vegan nor lactose intolerant, and eats gluten-filled breads and biscuits to Olympic standard.
J.L. Moultrie
Story - "Periphery"
J.L. Moultrie is a native Detroiter, poet and fiction writer who communicates his art through the written word. He fell in love with literature after encountering Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Baldwin, Rainer Maria Rilke and many others. He considers his work to be experiential, abstract expressions.
Marcus Fender
Story - "A Great Cloud"
Marcus Fender is a writer from Oxfordshire, currently living in London. He studied classics at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2017, and has worked as an educator and in the publishing industry. "A Great Cloud" is his first published story.
Mark Kirkbride
Poem - "The Note Pinned to my heart Reads…"
Mark Kirkbride is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan's Fan Club. His work has appeared in Neon Literary Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, the Morning Star and the Daily Mirror.
A E Reiff
Poem - "Used Cadillac"
AE Reiff sculpts free form ceramic figures and murals at Forms of the Formless Ceramic, and is involved as a writer in portraying inner speech at Encouragements for Planting.
DS Maolalai
Poem - "maintenance Visit"
DS Maolalai has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019)
Cecilia Chapman
Story - "Not For Long"
Artwork - "Filling Station"
Cecelia Chapman is a San Francisco-born artist known for her experimental work investigating environment in writing, video and design. She has been collaborating online with Jeff Crouch since 2007.
Marion Pitman
Story - "Conversation at the End of the World"
Short story collection, "Music in the Bone", is now available from Alchemy Press.
Richard Magahiz
Prose poem - "One without timbers"
Richard Magahiz has a day job working with computers, originally as a physicist now in software. When it comes to music, food, or books his tastes are both eclectic and idiosyncratic. After a long time on the East Coast of the US he's back in California.
John Muro
Poem - "Neon Pegasus"
A resident of Connecticut, John's first volume of poems, In the Lilac Hour, was published last fall by Antrim House, and it is available on Amazon. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including River Heron, Clementine Unbound, Moria, Sheepshead and the French Literary Review. John has been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.
Cathy Bryant
Story - "The Commonplace Conversation of the Sphinx"
Cathy Bryant has won 29 writing competitions, and had hundreds of pieces published. Her books are: Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Look at All the Women, Erratics, and How to Win Writing Competitions. Cathy also runs the free listings site for writers, Comps and Calls at www.compsandcalls.com/wp/
Russ Bickerstaff
Story - "The End in our Back Yard"
Russ Bickerstaff is an author and editor living in Milwaukee, WI.
A N Grace
Story - "Interregnum"
AN Grace is a writer from the United Kingdom, whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Queen's Quarterly, Young Magazine, The Racket, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and others.
Boris Glikman
Prose - "Falling with The Falls"
Poem - "P.S. (In Memory Of)"
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."
Jeff Crouch
Artwork - "Filling Station"
Jeff Crouch is alive. In Texas.
James Kowalczyk
James Kowalczyk was born and raised in Brooklyn but now lives in Northern California with his wife, two daughters, four cats and ten fish. He teaches English at the high school and college levels. His work has appeared in numerous publications both in print and online.
David Turnbull
Story - "Conversations on a Car Ride Bound for a Door That isn't a Door"
David Turnbull is a member of the Clockhouse London Writers group of genre writers. He writes mainly short fiction and has had numerous short stories published in magazines and anthologies. His stories have previously been featured at Liars League London events and read at other live events such as Solstice Shorts and Virtual Futures. He was born in Scotland, but now lives in the Catford area of London. He can be found at www.tumsh.co.uk.
Christopher Fielden
Story - "The Cactus Creek Phantom Feeder"
Chris is an award-winning and bestselling author. His work has featured in books published by independent press, established magazines and renowned competition anthologies. Chris's short story collection, Book of the Bloodless Volume 1: Alternative Afterlives published by Victorina Press, was an award-winning finalist in the 'Fiction: Short Story' category of the International Book Awards. He's a member of Clockhouse London Writers and Stokes Croft Writers.
A R Bender
Story - "A Whispered Oath"
A.R. Bender is a writer of German heritage now living in Tacoma, Washington, USA. His short stories, flash fiction, and poetry have been published in numerous literary journals. He's also seeking representation for his completed historical novel. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking off the grid and coaching youth soccer.
Kenneth Mulvey
Kenneth Mulvey writes out of the Texan desert southwest. He has been published by Sein und Werden, Thieves Jargon and Dirt Flask among others.
Eric Suhem
Art - "Opportunity at the end of the Corridor"
Eric Suhem can be found in the orange hallway www.orangehallway.com
Rachel Kendall
Proprietor of this fine establishment. Be warned: she won't take any of your nonsense.
Rachel's first book of short stories, Her Black Little Heart, was out a few years ago, around 2004. Her daughter came out in 2009. Her second short story collection, The Bride Stripped Bare, published by Dog Horn Publishing, came out in 2013 and her short novel, Stranger Days, came out in 2015, published by Oneiros Books.
