J. Bradley Minnick

BIOGRAPHY

J. Bradley Minnick is a writer, public radio host and producer, and a Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has written, edited, and produced the one-minute spot “Facts About Fiction,” and Arts & Letters Radio, a show celebrating modern humanities with a concentration on Arkansas cultural and intellectual work and can be found at artsandlettersradio.org. He has published fiction in Toad Suck Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Literally Stories, Inklette Magazine, Cleaver, Twelve Winter’s Journal, East of the Web, Litbop Art and Literature in the Groove, Rural Fiction Magazine, Café Lit, Potato Soup Journal’s ‘Best of 2022’ anthology, and Southwest Review.

Artist Bio: 
L.K. Sukany is an artist, author/illustrator, and musician. She currently lives and works in South Carolina. You can find more of her art, writing, and songs at paperopera.com.

Stories

The World Had Come For Us

My friend Manny Tankin had a toy truck; a perfect replica in miniature, a black nemesis with a flatbed, a working tailgate, and a cab one could sit in and pedal down the street. He named it Stegosaurus—“Stego” for short. I was less adventurous. I had a toy car, a little red job with finely crafted metal all around, steel headlights, and, of course, a set of pedals. I named it Ptarmigan—“Tar” for short.
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