Laurie Stone is author most recently of My Life as an Animal, a book of linked stories. Imagine a novel as a bowl you smash against a wall; the shards are these stories. Her short fiction has appeared in Fence, Open City, Anderbo, Nanofiction, Creative Nonfiction, Threepenny Review, The Collagist, Black Sun Lit, and many other journals and anthologies. To learn more about her work, visit Lstonehere.wordpress.com.