Nine of William Preston's short stories and novelettes have been published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, including four stories (a fifth to be published in 2024) known collectively as the Old Man Tales. A new short story is additionally forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Other fiction has appeared in Stone Canoe and Zoetrope: All-Story (winner, the 2006 Short Fiction Prize). Retired from teaching, he is a parent to three grown daughters and grandparent to two girls. He lives in Syracuse with his dog, Quincy. More of William’s work can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-Preston/author/B008BTWZ1Y.
Even Jesus’ parents gave competing accounts of his birth. —You were, said his mother, —unexpectedly large. I said to your father, Where had so much child been hiding? I couldn’t believe this huge person had been waiting inside me. Yet his father, squatting, slick with the day’s sweat, his back against a cool interior wall, recalled a different truth. —Tiny…. Read more →