Claire Lombardo is currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have appeared in or are forthcoming from Atticus Review, Little Fiction, Luna Luna Magazine, Oyez Review, Wyvern Lit, and Modern Shorts, an anthology from Fiction Attic Press. She hails from Oak Park, Illinois, and is currently at work on her first novel. You can find her online at clairelombardo.com or follow her on Twitter @clairelombardo.
According to Daniel this dumb town was built in 1894 with the hopes of “keeping out the riffraff.” But all that means to me is that there are no streetlights and so sometimes I get lost on my way to the library...