Author Jay Sturner

Issue #106 of Yellow Mama Webzine is now live and contains my poems "Venom and Bite," a poem that didn't make it into my chapbook Shadows and Sparks , and "Walking the Suburb," which I wrote in my head while walking the neighborhood. To read "Venom and Bite," click here . To read "Walking the Suburb," click here . Image by Kelly Moyer.

When Confronted by an Elder God... Grab your phone, get video, try for a sample. Then run like hell to a scientist and co-author a peer-reviewed article—win a Nobel! Don’t just stand there and lose your mind. Going mad is so last century. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s penchant for  having characters “go mad” in several of his stories. It  was first published in Aphelion Webzine in 2024.

The September 2024 issue of Carmina Magazine is currently live and contains my poem "Ratri and the Grieving Botanist." The poem is a reprint, having first appeared in Eternal Haunted Summer back in 2021. This newer version is better, I think, than the original, and perhaps warrants a fresh read. You can do so by clicking here . Note: Ratri is the Hindu goddess of night. Many thanks to editor Clarabelle Miray Fields for reprinting this poem!

The July 2024 issue of Flash Digest is now available and includes my fantasy story "In Dreams." To purchase, visit Hiraeth Publishing . (Amazon link forthcoming.)

The June 2024 issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk is now available and includes my poem "How Some People Disappear." To purchase, visit  Hiraeth Publishing or  Amazon.com .

The new issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly is now available and includes my story "Love Child," a piece co-written with author  Manuel Paul Arenas . The theme of this issue is "folk horror." Links to purchase can be found at the following: Paperback Version Digital Version

The Alien Fronds issue of View From Atlantis is now online and includes my poem "Pitcher Plant." It can be read by clicking here . "Pitcher Plant" was originally published in the Fall 2022 issue of Star*Line .

The April 2024 issue of Aphelion Webzine is now live and includes my poem "When Confronted by an Elder God…." It was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's penchant for having characters "go mad" in several of his stories. To read it, click here .

The latest issue of Spectral Realms is now available and includes my poem "The Great and Final Feast." To purchase, click  here . From the website: Hippocampus Press is proud to commemorate ten years of our acclaimed journal of weird poetry, Spectral Realms , with the publication of the twentieth issue. As before, it contains a diverse array of poetry by today's leading versifiers in the realm of horror and the supernatural—John Shirley, Scott J. Couturier, Frank Coffman, Manuel Pérez-Campos, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Leigh Blackmore, Ann K. Schwader, and a host of others. Maxwell I. Gold and Jay Sturner contribute provocative prose poems, while a cadre of poets pen tributes to Dylan Thomas (Carl E. Reed's "Echoing Dylan Thomas"), Robert W. Chambers (David J. Kopaska-Merkel’s "A Vision of Carcosa"), Emily Brontë Michael Potts's "After Heathcliff Digs Up Cathy"), and the imperishable Shakespeare (Kyla Lee Ward's "Malvolio's Reve

Young alien slips behind an asteroid unknowingly enters a tear in the space-time continuum. It returns a split-second later— friends nowhere to be found; planet long, long dead.