Ben East served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi before taking up various teaching and diplomatic assignments in West Africa, the Middle East, and throughout the Americas. A native of Connecticut, he lives in Mexico City working on a satire of diplomacy for the War on Terror. His work has appeared in The Foreign Service Journal and is forthcoming from Umbrella Factory Magazine. "Guts" is his fiction debut.
Winterswim by Ryan W. Bradley Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014 172 pages, $11.26 Reviewed by Ben East The prologue to Ryan W. Bradley’s Winterswim strikes quick and brutal: a violent pastor, a forced conversion to Christ, a victim...
Read MoreThe Garden of Good and Evil Pancakes By David S. Atkinson EAB Publishing Company, 2014 186 pages, $11 Reviewed by Ben East What better way to suggest the futility of the human experience than with a card game called Armistice?...
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