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Paganini’s Strings

by P.J. Leonard

The neon lights of kanji rippled in the puddle. December rain pounded the rusty drain pipes and trash loaded wall-to-wall in the night-cloaked alley. It reeked of fried and refried takeaways, a stench that gave my stomach a guilty rumble.

But I never eat before a gig. …

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Richard Fellinger

Richard Fellinger is a writing teacher at Elizabethtown College, a former journalist, and a nominee for this year's Pushcart Prize. He won the 2008 Flash Fiction Contest at Red Cedar Review, and his stories have appeared in other journals such as Epiphany, Potomac Review, Willow Review, Westview, and PANK. He lives with his wife and son in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and he's currently working on his first novel and shopping a collection of stories about people from Pennsylvania's Rust Belt.