SAMANTHA ELIOT STIER ‘s short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Faircloth Review, Black Heart Magazine, Infective Ink Magazine, Spry Literary Journal, Citizen Brooklyn, Blank Fiction Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, Mojave River Press & Review, The Writing Disorder, and Gemini Magazine. She won an honorable mention in the 2013 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Contest, and a selection of her stories was featured as part of the 2014 New Short Fiction Series, L.A.’s longest-running spoken-word series. Samantha holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and lives in Venice Beach, California. Visit her at SamanthaStier.com.

“The Hole” – FLAPPERHOUSE #3 (Fall 2014)