Marvin’s tumor is the size of an unshelled walnut. His doctor, who wears bile-colored Crocs, has told Marvin and Marvin’s wife, Cathy, that he plans on removing the tumor with a knife that’s not really a knife but a...
BRAIN, BRIAN
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Whitney Collins
Whitney is the author of BIG BAD, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize, a Gold Medal IPPY, and a Bronze Medal INDIES. Whitney is also the recipient of a Distinguished Story nod from The Best American Short Stories, a Pushcart Prize, aPushcart Special Mention, the 2020 American Short(er) Fiction Prize, and winner of the 2021 ProForma Contest. Her stories have appeared/will appear in American Short Fiction, AGNI, The Idaho Review, Gulf Coast, The Pinch, Grist, The Best Small Fictions 2022, and Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, among others. Her second collection, RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES, is forthcoming June 2024.