BONNIE JO STUFFLEBEAM lives in Texas with her trumpeter partner and two literarily-named cats: Gimli and Don Quixote. Her fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Goblin Fruit, and Strange Horizons. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program and reviews short fiction at her blog, Short Story Review. She also curates a yearly Art & Words Collaborative Show, for which she accepts submissions each March. You can visit her on Twitter @BonnieJoStuffle or through her website: www.bonniejostufflebeam.com.

“Scars” – FLAPPERHOUSE #2 (Summer 2014)