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She had gloriously red hair. As she walked to the Red Hair Registration Office, people would stop on the sidewalk, gape, say, “My, what luminous red…
Ken Poyner
Ken Poyner’s collections of brief fictions Constant Animals, Avenging Cartography, Revenge of the House Hurlers, and Engaging Cattle and collections of poetry The Book of Robot, Victims of a Failed Civics, Stone the Monsters or Dance, and Lessons from Lingering Houses can be located at Amazon, most online booksellers, and Barking Moose Press. He spent 33 years in information system management, is married to a world record-holding female power lifter, and has a family of several cats and betta fish. Individual works have appeared in Café Irreal, Analog, Danse Macabre, The Cincinnati Review, and several hundred other places. He has had seven Pushcart nominations without fielding a single win.
