Jak Merriman (he/him) is a working-class queer. He is currently writing on ritual, magic(k), Gnosis, cock, the Queer Cryptic, and exploring narrative and personal Decreation in hybrid fictions/non-fictions. His short story Dalstinium Superstore appeared in The Bittersweet Review: This Used To Be The Future, and other fictions and poems have appeared in Minor Literature(s), & Change, and Subtexts (for which he wrote and edited), among other places. He co-produced an experimental radio programme called Common Place, broadcast on Resonance FM, in collaboration with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, for which he was writer and sound designer.