short fiction

No More Tender Vittles fiction

No More Tender Vittles

Kristin Devine April 5, 2019

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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Little Lost Georgia

Burt Likko October 7, 2014

Burt Likko tries his hand at fiction again. But this time, there are rules.

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