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  Caroline Hughes is a writer living in Manhattan. She is the author of The Purge (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and other works have been published through Punk Noir Magazine and A Celebration of Young Poets. NJ Gallegos is an emergency physician from Colorado with a penchant for medical horror. Her work has been published with Shacklebound Books and Medusa Tales. Upcoming releases will be featured through Poe Boy Publishing, Sirens Call Publishing, and Black Hare Press. Chris Courtney Martin is a black queer from Philadelphia, writing and producing their work as a Drexel University alumni. Martin's screenwriting credits include "PALE HORSE", the directorial debut of "Gabourey Sidibe", and other projects starring Sheryl Lee Ralph and Niecy Nash. Their hybrid collection of poems and essays, THE BOOK OF IDLE POEMS, released on June 16th, 2022. Francois Bereaud is a father, full-time math professor, and mentor in the San Diego Congolese refugee community. His work is ...

Anthromorphistic allegories to encapsulate "spiritual oneness". Snarling at the systemic and submissive, if not aligned with our inherent nature. Rationalize the prey and potentialize the predator. Women Who Run With the Wolves is empowering without being eye-rollingly hierarchical against gender. These adaptations of unapologetic assertiveness are devoted to the metaphoric and matter-of-fact untaming of the female psyche. "One of the least disgust issues of individuation is that as one shines light into the dark of the psyche as strongly as one can, the shadows, where the light is not, grow even darker. So when we illuminate some parts of the psyche, there is a resultant deeper dark to contend with. This start cannot be left alone. The key, the questions, cannot be hidden or forgotten. They must be asked. They must be answered. The deepest work is usually the darkest. [. . .] To remedy this, we as women must look into the killing thing that has gained hold o...