Sidney Thompson is the author of the short story collection Sideshow. His fiction, twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in 2 Bridges Review, BlazeVox, The Carolina Quarterly, Cleaver Magazine, The Cortland Review, Danse Macabre, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Grey Sparrow Journal, NANO Fiction, The Southern Review, storySouth, and elsewhere. He is the Assistant Fiction Editor for the American Literary Review and teaches at Texas Christian University.
Ben’s father had been the guidance counselor, so photos of him still hung in the George County High School hallways, a pillar among pillars in every class picture for sixteen straight years. Sometimes when Ben, a sophomore, had time between classes, he’d think of stopping and seeing his father again, miniaturized. Charles Lamar Collins. Always in a suit and tie…. Read more →