Fiction Fix Seventeen

Corey Farrenkopf
I am a graduate of UMASS Amherst M.Ed
program. I also received my B.A. in English
from the same school with a concentration
in creative writing. I have worked as a
groundskeeper in cemeteries, as a teacher in
mental hospitals, as a janitor for the public
bathrooms at the beaches along Cape Cod’s
shore. Currently I am a stove technician
who writes during the evenings… so if you
don’t like my story, maybe I can interest
you in a quality gas stove in its place? Let
me know.
Jim Finney
Raised in California, lives in NYC, and
always believed a fortune cookie that said
“All your hard work will soon pay off.”
Mathew Serback can moonwalk on ice.
That’s a story to tell all your children. You
can find his work in On the Rusk, Scissors
& Spackle, Timber Journal, and Repurposed
Magazine. He wants you to know you are
from the future and you are good.
Alice Thomsen has B.A.s in creative writing
and psychology, a weakness for black
cats, and a crush on Carl Sagan. With the
exception of a Michigan winter spent on
sonnets about serial killers, she writes fiction,
with a particular interest in the ways that
people go wrong.
Karen Loeb
My story for you— “A Gift of Swallows”
old cake, a wind-up toy,
grave stones,
Japan referenced
and the Hale-Bopp comet.
A father appears—
he’s been there before
in “The Walk to Makino”
and “Cantaloupe”
both in Japan.
Google me while you can.
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