This is Luck

Andreas was certain that when it first began, it wasn’t like this. “Andreas, please, a strategy,” Maggie said. “For a game of the lowest chance?” Everything Andreas and Maggie said carried the weight of all the other things they had said and the weight of all they knew about each other and all they knew about…

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Paul Kennebeck

Paul Kennebeck was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant based on a novel he published entitled Last Night’s Farm, along with a short story in Harper’s Magazine entitled “Baldessari’s Dead Sea Flights,” which was later anthologized. He has had short stories published in The Quarterly and some genre magazines, and has also published travel articles. Recently his stories have been published in Carve and Voices of Hellenism. He has just completed a novel. He and his wife make their home in Denver, Colorado.

Neil McClements

Neil McClements is a self- taught British part time/spare time magazine, book and comic illustrator. He has produced covers, posters and comic-strip artwork for Eisner nominated and award winning publications, private commissions and other commercial projects across a range of traditional and digital mediums.


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