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Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, forthcoming from Keyhole Press in October 2010, as well as three chapbooks, Wolf Parts (Keyhole Press), The Collectors (Caketrain Press), and How the Broken Lead the Blind (Willows Wept Press). His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Hayden's Ferry Review, Willow Springs, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been selected for inclusion in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. His book reviews and critical essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, American Book Review, and The Quarterly Conversation.

He is also the editor of The Collagist and of Dzanc's Best of the Web anthology series.

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife Jessica, and can be reached via e-mail at mdbell79@gmail.com.

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Monday
Mar152010

"Prescott, Presley, Preston" in JMWW

The fine folks at JMWW have kindly included my Cataclysm Baby story "Prescott, Presley, Preston" in their Spring 2010 Special Flash Issue, edited by David Erlewine. My story appears alongside new fiction by Charles Lennox, Jarrid Deaton, Gary Moshimer, Rusty Barnes, Katrina Gray, Timothy Gager, Seth Fried, Tria Andrews, Damian Dressick, Sheldon Lee Compton, Ethel Rohan, S. Craig Renfoe, Jr., Andrew Roe, Kyle Minor, Michael Czyzniejewski, Edward Mullany, Matthew Salesses, Kevin Wilson, Curtis Smith, Tara Laskowski, Molly Gaudry, Erin Fitzgerald, Meg Pokrass, Roxane Gay, Sam Nam, Robert Swartwood, Scott Garson, and Ben Loory.

As a teaser, here's the first paragraph of "Prescott, Presley, Preston":

Know how we once believed our children would surprise us. And also how we were wrong. How there was only the shock of the first prediction coming true, and after that everything else was known. Know how our oldest told us the day and date his first brother would be born, and then together they apprised us of the youngest, disclosing the hour of my wife's water breaking, the length of her labor, the exact moment of the crowning of their brother's head. 

JMWW is a fantastic magazine, and David Erlewine did a great job putting together this issue. I've only read a fraction of what's there, but I can't wait to read more. Thanks to David for including me, and to Jen Michalski for everything she did for the issue and for JMWW in general. Enjoy!

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Reader Comments (2)

Great story, Matt!

March 16, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTimothy Gager

Thanks, Timothy!

March 22, 2010 | Registered CommenterMatt Bell
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