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Jim Bartlett

After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

Reaper by Sharon Frame Gay

As an orphaned son of an orphan, I always see the glass as half empty. I picture the water murky and lukewarm, a waterline etched below the rim. Maybe with an ash or two floating at the bottom, because that’s what I do for a living. I deal with ashes. The remains of the deceased. No matter how those who pass away see their glass, meager or full, they eventually end up in a satchel carried on my shoulder.
My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

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Cast Off

Mercury

A Little Book About Trees – by Tim Burr

Interviews

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Spotlight On Writers – Maliya Denise Wilmore

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Still Standing Tall

Bonfire of Resolve

Perestroika: An Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Tooth

The Persian Thief

In Rauen Woods

A Great Patriot

Pretty Liars

Americans

Bonfire of Resolve

Mercury

A Little Book About Trees – by Tim Burr

SHIMLA

Cast Off

Grandchild

Every Day, at Five A.M.

Cracks of Marble

Still Standing Tall

The Trip

Autumn Cozy

Missing Her