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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

This is Our Christmas

Ghost of a Christmas Past

The Spy Hiding in the Bougainvillea

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Miroslava Panayotova

Interview Q&A With Jim Bartlett

Spotlight On Writers – Darryl B

Ghost of a Christmas Past

This is Our Christmas

Christmas Baking

The Sweet Stakes Robbery

Book Review – ‘More Than Meets the Eye’ by Dilip Mohapatra

Ten Seconds Before Sunrise

A History Of Performance

Listening Skills

short stories

Broken Halo Blues

Cieder Muld and the Boy

The Mirror Did Not Come as Glass

The Leaves of Diablo

Ghost of a Christmas Past

The Spy Hiding in the Bougainvillea

Christmas Time

This is Our Christmas

Criss-Cross Christmas

Last Christmas on Moravian Lane

An Old Man’s Christmas Eve

Maurice Chips AKA Father Christmas