Indi­vid­ual entries on Richard Koste­lan­etz’s work in sev­er­al fields appear in var­i­ous edi­tions of Read­ers Guide to Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Writ­ers, Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Ency­clo­pe­dia of Lit­er­a­ture, Con­tem­po­rary Poets, Con­tem­po­rary Nov­el­ists, Post­mod­ern Fic­tion, Webster’s Dic­tio­nary of Amer­i­can Writ­ers, The Harper­Collins Reader’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, Baker’s Bio­graph­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of Musi­cians, Direc­to­ry of Amer­i­can Schol­ars, Who’s Who […]

She used to pull the cov­ers over her head when shad­ows mor­phed into mon­sters. One day she walked into her room, tears cling­ing to her cheeks, and the mon­ster growled. She growled loud­er. Now she dan­gles her arm out the side of her bed, and they hold hands. The End.

      Indi­vid­ual entries on Richard Koste­lan­etz’s work in sev­er­al fields appear in var­i­ous edi­tions of Read­ers Guide to Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Writ­ers, Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Ency­clo­pe­dia of Lit­er­a­ture, Con­tem­po­rary Poets, Con­tem­po­rary Nov­el­ists, Post­mod­ern Fic­tion, Webster’s Dic­tio­nary of Amer­i­can Writ­ers, The Harper­Collins Reader’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, Baker’s Bio­graph­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of Musi­cians, Direc­to­ry of Amer­i­can Schol­ars, Who’s Who […]

I keep wait­ing for good news. But no one calls. No one knocks on the door. Maybe tomor­row. We’re all sleepy here in our town. We slog around in the sum­mer heat, wait­ing for some­thing to hap­pen. At night, I open the win­dow of my fur­nished room and lie in the heat and hear the […]

      Indi­vid­ual entries on Richard Koste­lan­etz’s work in sev­er­al fields appear in var­i­ous edi­tions of Read­ers Guide to Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Writ­ers, Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Ency­clo­pe­dia of Lit­er­a­ture, Con­tem­po­rary Poets, Con­tem­po­rary Nov­el­ists, Post­mod­ern Fic­tion, Webster’s Dic­tio­nary of Amer­i­can Writ­ers, The Harper­Collins Reader’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, Baker’s Bio­graph­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of Musi­cians, Direc­to­ry of Amer­i­can Schol­ars, Who’s Who […]

      Indi­vid­ual entries on Richard Koste­lan­etz’s work in sev­er­al fields appear in var­i­ous edi­tions of Read­ers Guide to Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Writ­ers, Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Ency­clo­pe­dia of Lit­er­a­ture, Con­tem­po­rary Poets, Con­tem­po­rary Nov­el­ists, Post­mod­ern Fic­tion, Webster’s Dic­tio­nary of Amer­i­can Writ­ers, The Harper­Collins Reader’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, Baker’s Bio­graph­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of Musi­cians, Direc­to­ry of Amer­i­can Schol­ars, Who’s Who […]

      Indi­vid­ual entries on Richard Koste­lan­etz’s work in sev­er­al fields appear in var­i­ous edi­tions of Read­ers Guide to Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Writ­ers, Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Ency­clo­pe­dia of Lit­er­a­ture, Con­tem­po­rary Poets, Con­tem­po­rary Nov­el­ists, Post­mod­ern Fic­tion, Webster’s Dic­tio­nary of Amer­i­can Writ­ers, The Harper­Collins Reader’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, Baker’s Bio­graph­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of Musi­cians, Direc­to­ry of Amer­i­can Schol­ars, Who’s Who […]

      Indi­vid­ual entries on Richard Koste­lan­etz’s work in sev­er­al fields appear in var­i­ous edi­tions of Read­ers Guide to Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Writ­ers, Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Ency­clo­pe­dia of Lit­er­a­ture, Con­tem­po­rary Poets, Con­tem­po­rary Nov­el­ists, Post­mod­ern Fic­tion, Webster’s Dic­tio­nary of Amer­i­can Writ­ers, The Harper­Collins Reader’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, Baker’s Bio­graph­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of Musi­cians, Direc­to­ry of Amer­i­can Schol­ars, Who’s Who […]

In a booth, with his back to the door, a clown is eat­ing a bowl of phở. He is between birth­day par­ties and hasn’t both­ered to remove his white make­up or round red nose. An over­sized red hat is on the seat next to him. As he leaves the restau­rant, swing­ing the hat back onto his […]

About the author Kathy Fish teach­es for the Mile High MFA at Reg­is Uni­ver­si­ty in Den­ver, Col­orado. She has pub­lished four col­lec­tions of short fic­tion: a chap­book in the Rose Met­al Press col­lec­tive, A Pecu­liar Feel­ing of Rest­less­ness: Four Chap­books of Short Short Fic­tion by Four Women (2008); Wild Life (Mat­ter Press, 2011); Togeth­er We […]