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Issue No. 177





We were surprised, of course, that when we built our time machine it turned out to be a Delorean. We took it apart, put it back together, didn’t matter. Looked at the blueprints, looked at the silver car. Scratched our heads. A joke? A prank? Sabotage? If sabotage, then it had backfired. The Delorean worked.

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About the Author

Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, and editor of Watchlist: Short Stories by Persons of Interest, a new edition of which will be published by Catapult in May 2016. His fiction and essays have appeared in The American Reader, Full Stop, Guernica, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He lives way, way upstate in Canton, New York and teaches creative writing at St. Lawrence University.





About the Guest Editor

Starcherone Books exists to stimulate public interest in works of innovative prose fiction and nurture an understanding of the art of fiction writing by publishing, disseminating, and affording the public opportunities to hear readings of innovative works. In addition to encouraging the development of authors and their audiences, Starcherone seeks to educate the public in small press publishing and encourage the growth of other small presses.







“Spooky Action at a Distance” is excerpted from Everyone Wants To Be Ambassador to France (Starcherone October 2015) and is reprinted by permission of the author. © Bryan Hurt 2015. All rights reserved.





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