When Imaginations Spark:
Stories Are Born  

   Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing stories, essays, and novels. His stories have been accepted more than 580 times by journals, magazines, and anthologies including The American Writers Review,Bryant Literary Review, and Shenandoah. He was nominated four times for Pushcart Prizes and once for inclusion in Best of the Net anthology. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.

A native of rural Connecticut, Christine Roy grew up surrounded by history and haunted tales. While her educational background is in communications, her writing often follows the path of the paranormal. On this journey, she has completed three novels and is continuing on with a variety of new projects. In recent times, she has found publication as the winner of a Bardsy contest with her short story “Holiday Spirit” and with Writer’s Playground for “Playing for Sam.”

   Joseph Salerno works as a part-time office manager for a small accounting firm. He has a BA in Psychology from SUNY - Empire State College and he is a proud member of the Long Island Writers' Guild.
   His stories have been published on numerous occasions: Guilders '84 - The Literary Magazine of Hostra University (1984), Open Minds Quarterly (2014), and Scribes Valley Publishing anthologies 2019-2024.
   Joseph is an enthusiastic board game player (quite ruthless at backgammon), and he lives with about a dozen large houseplants three blocks from the New York City limits.

   Carole lived in NZ and the UK before finally settling in Australia.
   Her early careers have included window dressing, debt collection, an allied health practice and working for the British Civil Service. In Australia Carole completed a Master’s in Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy and thereafter has specialised in relationship therapy.
   Carole has been writing for most of her life, but only started to take it seriously in the last few years. Her first published work was ‘Cerelia’, a dystopian post-holocaust fiction, which is included in the anthology ‘The Four Season Project’, released in 2022. She has since been published in several other anthologies, including in 2024, ‘Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies‘, and ‘Monsterthology 3‘.

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   Marilee Aufdenkamp is recently retired after nearly a quarter century teaching undergraduate nursing. She is currently at work on her second novel-length piece of historical fiction—the first remains unpublished. She has had half a dozen short stories published in electronic and small-circulation print journals. She recently launched a Facebook group called Twentieth Century Historical Chat where members honor the quotidian lives of parents, grands, and greats, and celebrate their own childhoods and their twentieth-century coming-of-age experiences. Marilee and her husband live in a smallish town in Nebraska and are the proud parents of a grown daughter whom they rely on heavily for tech support. 

   Growing up on a farm in southwestern Ontario, Emely Bennett spent many happy hours with her Grandmother listening to stories of the “olden days” when her grandmother was young. Storytelling became a part of Emely’s life so it wasn’t surprising that English Composition remained her favourite class throughout her school years.
   Emely retired as Executive Assistant to the Executive Director of a non-profit organization near Toronto, Ontario. Her first short story, “Jimmy’s Swing”, was one of 15 entries selected to be included in the Stories through the Ages 2022 anthology.
   In addition to keeping tabs on her family who seem to be spread all over the province, Emely keeps quite busy with reading, gardening, volunteering, and working on her next short story.

   Tim Pingelton self-published his first novel, Art Appreciation, and has two completed novels awaiting traditional publishing. He also wrote two biographies on Ernest Hemingway for Enslow Publishing. He spends as much time as possible in art museums, and Tim and his wife self-published two volumes (so far) of fun art mystery books titled Letters from Luis for grade school kids. Tim lives in Columbia, Missouri, and loves downhill skiing (alas, not in Missouri).

   Lenora Salvucci has been writing stories since her grammar school days and recently has tried her hand at playwrighting as well. The desire to create characters and imagine them in difference situations has never left her.
   Her stories have appeared in small magazines and have taken top prizes in local Arts Festivals.
   She is also an actress and member of the Actors Studio in Newburyport which is a very active creative arts community. She was born in raised in Lawrence Massachusetts and currently lives in Amesbury MA.
   She is very happy to have had her story chosen for publication.

   Dennis McFadden, a retired project manager, lives and writes in a cedar-shingled cottage called Summerhill in the woods of upstate New York. His first collection “Hart’s Grove,” was published by Colgate University Press in 2010, and his second, “Jimtown Road,” won the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction; another collection, “Lafferty, Looking for Love,” is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. His novel, “Old Grimes Is Dead,” earned a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, and was selected by their editors as one of the Best Indie Books of 2022.
   Over a hundred of his stories have appeared in publications such as The Missouri Review (including the winner of the 2023 Perkoff Prize), New England Review, The Sewanee Review, Arts & Letters, The Antioch Review, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The Best American Mystery Stories and in the inaugural volume of the series, The Best Mystery Stories the Year 2021. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he also frequently serves as the judge for Prime Number Magazine’s Short Fiction Award, and as their guest short fiction editor.

  Phillip Lynne lives in Tennessee and unleashes stories on an unsuspecting world. He has been published in five countries - most of them on Earth.