| precious little fictions in 500 words (or less). |
| Table of Contents |
| Big Water (full text) | James Grinwis |
| Destiny | Mary Miller |
| The Blind Movie Reviewer | Mark Yakich |
| A Plague of Cranes | Terese Svoboda |
| At The Wedding | Luke Whisnant |
| Mermaid | Aurelie Sheehan |
| Conditions | Claudia Smith |
| Look at It This Way | Simon A. Smith |
| Dancing with Dogs | Matthew Salesses |
| Phone Conversations of the Recently Divorced | David Schuman |
| Watch Over Me | Aimee Pokwatka |
| The Pit | Scott Provence |
| Richard: 1978 | JoAnna Novak |
| Earl Anthony | Christopher Orlet |
| Poem Lover | Michael K. Meyers |
| Gospel Soft in the Next Room | Kelly Miller |
| Murder or Manslaughter | Yuka Igarashi |
| Coffee | Toshiya Kamei |
| The Things You Won't Be Doing This Year | Jeff Landon |
| About My Life Length | Avital Gad-Cykman |
| Cats with Pitiful Mystiques | Christen Enos |
| Driving through the Night | Blaze Dzikowski |
| After Dinner | Amy L. Clark |
| Zeus. Zeus? | Myfanwy Collins |
| Fancy Wear | Ryan Blacketter |
| Hitler's Daughter | Jack Anderson |
| Coffee (Trans. Toshiya Kamei) | Édgar Omar Avilés |
| Cover Art |
“Deap Sea Angler” by John Clarke

John Clarke graduated from the Art Institute of Boston in 1991 with a degree in Illustration and has worked with clients such as Scholastic, IBM, the ASPCA and many others. His influences range from Hieronymus Bosch to Hanna Barbera. In 2006 he received the Virginia Press Association Award for Editorial Illustration. He is also an avid painter and his work has been exhibited and sold in galleries in Massachusetts and Connecticut and hangs in private collections from Australia to Japan (the long way). He currently resides in Salem Massachusetts with his wife, their cat FANG and two frogs.
See more of John's work at his website.
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