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