Featuring an international group of authors, the stories and poems explore personal discovery, relationships, social observation and commentary, loss and recovery through a range of genres, including contemporary realism, speculative and science fiction, and magical realism. Phillippa Yaa de Villiers is a South African poet, writer, and performer whose accolades include performing her specially commissioned Commonwealth Day poem before Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in 2014. Ngyuyen Phan Que Mai is a rising star of Vietnamese poetry, writing and performing her work worldwide, including a commissioned poem for the UN's International Women's Day event in 2016. Tracy Fells is a Sussex-based short story and flash fiction writer whose work is frequently shortlisted in competitions, including that of the Commonwealth Short Story competition 2014. Anne O'Brien is an Irish writer of soft but incisive and often very witty short stories who won the prestigious Bath Short Story prize in 2016. Lyn Jennings is a Sussex-based writer and performer of poetry whose voice brings out the depth of her reflective observations of life and humorous commentaries on the human condition. Suzanne Conboy-Hill (editor) is a Yorkshire-born writer of short stories, longer stories, and flash fiction whose work has been shortlisted by several online literary magazines. She was a Best of the Net nominee in 2014 with Puddles Like Pillows. The Foreword is by Ian McMillan; poet, broadcaster, and presenter of BBC Radio Three's The Verb.