Jeffrey Howe lives and works in the scenic Black Creek Bottoms area of St. Louis, Missouri, where he writes things that would have made his grandmother blanch, or at least blush. His short fiction has previously appeared at MicroHorror, flashquake.org, and the late, lamented Shine Journal. He ruminates at his blog, Merciless Idioms (http://jeffreyhowe.wordpress.com) when he thinks to.