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On the day of America’s 250th year birth E Pluribus Unum (Of The Many, ONE) Poetry Anthology 2026 was launched, edited by James P. Wagner, marking USA’s quarter millennium celebrations July 4th 1776 – 2026. The launch of this anthology is planned nationwide. Many poets have contributed. Here’s my poem in print ECHOES OF A SPIRITED DREAM :

Over the weekend June 2026 (being National Flash Fiction Month), I joined a group of flash fiction writers across the world for a LIVE reading of our stories published in Best Small Fictions 2025, followed by a brief impromptu panel discussion of our stories. Thanks to Michelle Elvy editor for putting the entire project together and for inviting me. My micro-fiction was BUS STOP originally published in A-Minor Magazine. The recording is available on YouTube worldwide here :

Here is my surreal new short story THE QUEST published this month May 2026 in the Grad students writing program curated publication Twisted Vine Literary and Arts Journal Spring 2026 Issue of the Western New Mexico University on their 10th Anniversary of running this literary magazine. My story is on Page 25. Read here :

To cap National Poetry Month April here’s my new haiku poem MOUNTAINS which came online in April 2026 in Spillwords. Read here :

Here’s my speculative science fiction horror short story INTO A DRIFTING DARK which published on March 30, 2026 in the literary magazine The Piker Press. Read here :

https://www.pikerpress.com/article/11750/into-a-drifting-dark/

My recent short story THE EDGE earned me the 3rd prize in prose from CEArts The Polk Street Review February 2026 – The Ties That Bind Anthology full of poetry, prose and artworks by numerous creatives. Prize winners were asked to wait for launch date on Zoom for announcements on Feb 28th, 2026. Proud to own my ribbon. Print copies are available on Amazon :

Mt new release a micro-fiction piece THE BIRTH was published late last year December 2025 in a book of poetry and fiction by The Stray Branch Fall/Winter 2025 #36 Vol 33. Print copies are available on Amazon. Do check it out. Link is here :

First publication of the new year! It’s poetry! My haiku SNOW was published online in the first week of the new year January 2026 in Spillwords Literary Magazine. Link is here :

As the year turned old to new four of my new poems published December 2025 in print in a beautiful publication that has been in existence over a hundred years – Stained Glass Quarterly 2025 Vol 120 No 2 ‘summer’ reading series. The poems are : THE SKY ITSELF; MOON JAR; WHO AM I; THE LARK’S SONG. To read :

https://stainedglass.org/stained-glass-quarterly

Rolling into the New Year 2026 I look back with gratitude for all that 2025 has meant to me. How do we thank the beautiful literary magazines and journals which housed my poems, flash fiction and short stories in 2025? Thank You litmags for publishing my work online, in anthologies, in print, in Best Of collections, beyond my expectation. As we ring in the new Thank You 2025! Here’s my annual list! Love you all :

SFPA’s Eye To The Telescope Magazine

Graveside Press Kosmos Obscura Cosmic Horror Anthology

Jewels of Serendipity Haiku Anthology

Spillwords (multiple)

Unlikely Stories Six Journal

Wigleaf Top 50 2025 Longlist

Ninth Heaven Poetry Journal

October Hill Literary Magazine

The Storms Literary Journal Issue V (UNESCO-Dublin and Fingal Arts)

Best Small Fictions 2025 Anthology

This year 2025 I have a couple of new work which showed up very recently few days ago, one a flash fiction, the other poetry (4 poems), that I shall be sharing with you into the new year. Thank you everyone for your kindness, love and support of #silicasun. Stay tuned!