There were as many as eight of us, though it was difficult to tell if people were traveling together or just randomly milling nearby.
Author
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Michael Backus has published fiction and non-fiction published in Channel magazine, Parhelion Literary Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Digging Through the Fat, Okey Panky, One Story, Exquisite Corpse, Cleaver, Oyster River Pages, The Portland Review, Prime Number, Every Writer’s Resource, Hanging Loose, The Writer, and The Sycamore Review, among others. His short story “Coney on the Moon” was published in early September 2017 in a stand-alone, illustrated Redbird chapbook. Xynobooks published his novel Double in 2012 and his novel The Vanishing Point” was published by Cactus Moon Publications in October of 2021. His book-length memoir is coming out in 2024. He teaches creative writing for Gotham Writer’s workshop and Zoetrope Magazine and lives in Albuquerque, NM.