Worth Its Weight
Words By Alexander Lumans, Art By Tyler Champion
Ike’s mom said nine years old was too young; he did not yet know that a dog’s more work than it’s worth.“You had a dog,” he told her; he’d seen the shots of her when she was just as young with her old pug in her lap.“I did,” she said as she tapped the side…
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Alexander Lumans
Alexander Lumans was the Spring 2014 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. He was also awarded a fellowship to the 2015 Arctic Circle Residency, where he sailed around Svalbard, Norway in a tall ship. His fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Story Quarterly, American Short Fiction, and Cincinnati Review, among others. He has been awarded fellowships to MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA, and Blue Mountain Center as well as scholarships to Sewanee and Bread Loaf. He received the 2015 Wabash Fiction Prize from Sycamore Review, the 2013 Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and the 2011 Barry Hannah Fiction Prize from Yalobusha Review. He graduated from the M.F.A. Fiction Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Tyler Champion
Tyler Champion is an illustrator and designer working in Nashville, TN. He graduated from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic art in 2010. He has worked on an array of projects including gig posters, concept art for video games, comics, shirt designs, and advertisements.
