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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 ...

Features

Borrowed Shoes

The War Within The Battle

Callisto

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Vaishnavi Pusapati

Spotlight On Writers – Dmitriy Belyanin

Spotlight On Writers – Miroslava Panayotova

Such Soulful Wailings

The Ex-Checker of the Disconsolate

In Answer to Your Question

The Sun Rising

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The Apparition

No Man Is An Island

John Donne

Santa’s Dead!

The Mouse on the Hearth

The War Within The Battle

The Angel Lady

The Yule Siege

I Don’t Want a Pony

Borrowed Shoes

The House the Ocean Left Behind

Turning Forty

The Jack Field

All I Want for Christmas Are the Polar Ice Caps

Come Find Me