JOSEPH SCAPELLATO is a visiting assistant professor of English at Bucknell University. His fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Post Road, Puerto Del Sol, PANK, and Lumina, as well as other journals, and has been anthologized in Harper Perennial s Forty Stories, Gigantic Books Gigantic Worlds: An Anthology of Science Flash Fiction and &NOW s forthcoming The Best Innovative Writing anthology.