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July 26, 2010

The Fish: a Children's Story

Jason Polan and I just did a four part story for Abe's Peanut: A Micro-Magazine for Children. It's called "The Fish" and it's about a raccoon.

November 28, 2009

The Floating City

The Floating City published in SPORK 1.3

"I have never been to the Floating City. In my youth we traveled some. My mother’s career took us quickly, and in a short span of time between when I was five and when I was eight, to four different continents, twenty-seven different countries, and four hundred different hotels."

August 27, 2008

For the Love of Paul Bunyan

For the Love of Paul Bunyan
by Fritz Swanson
(originally appeared in Pindeldyboz. Was later included in Best American Fantasy.)

She was tender. Soft as a sand dune after a windstorm.

Back in the before days, she would wake up and stretch those arms out across the sky, her left hand arched over the Baffin Islands, her right curled up under her jaw, her elbow casting a swaying shadow over the Jack Pine Forests of Saskatchewan. She was a tangle of stretching and yawning, and I would let slip a quiet sigh from where I lay, snuggled down along the south shore of Lake Erie, my head pillowed up on the Adirondacks.

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