HONORABLE MENTION: Foundling Review's 50-word fiction contest, Pachaas.
Max Vande Vaarst is a maybe possibly
someday up-and-coming writer of imaginative fiction whose work is
currently forthcoming in A Few Lines and Jersey Devil Press. He
presently resides in the Denver area, but can be found online at
www.maxvandevaarst.com.
Mayfly, Minnesota runs seven blocks, a geezer bar and a broken gas
pump. He grew up
here. She did too. The bugs come out on black lake nights, the summer
hatch. She smiles
as he cups them in killing jars, mouthless things skittering along the
ether, small as their
lives.
