How Do You Mind the Symptoms of a World So Black and Mysterious and Cold?
I was ten years old when the neighbors called the police to extinguish the Holy Sock Fire my mother had started in the parking lot of our building.
Aaron Tillman
Aaron Tillman received a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories and won First Prize in the Nancy Potter Short Story Contest at University of Rhode Island. His fiction has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, The Drum Literary Magazine, Opium Magazine, The Ocean State Review, Scrivener Creative Review, Prick of the Spindle, Glimmer Train Stories and theNewerYork, and he has recorded two stories for broadcast on the Words & Music program at Tufts University. He has an essay forthcoming in the journal Symbolism, and other essays published in Studies in American Humor, The CEA Critic, and The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America (Mythopoeic 2009).