Lightning seems to strike twice. Once again, I entered the Literary Taxidermy short story contest and had my entry chosen as a runner-up. The contest’s challenge was to use the opening and closing lines of either Toni Morrison’s Beloved or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to create a new story.

I decided on the Huxley novel and wrote a short called “Mowing The Sky” about the demise of a crop duster, which I’m happy to say is one of the 10 pieces included in the contest anthology 34 Stories. If you’re interested, check it out.