Robert Shapard has been co-creator and editor with James Thomas of Sudden and Flash Fiction anthologies for W.W. Norton for many years. He is the author of Water Issues and Other Safety Concerns. This collection won the W..S. Porter Prize from Regal House Publishing and is due out in spring 2025. Other stories of his have appeared in Necessary Fiction, Hoctok, New Flash Fiction Review, Juked, 100 Word Story, New World Writing Quarterly, The Literary Review, Fiction International, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, New England Review, Mid-American Review, Kenyon Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere.