The Binnacle: Thirteenth Annual Ultra-Short Edition

by Gerard NeCastro (Editor), Jenna Pashley Smith, Caroline Michalicki

The Binnacle’s Annual International Ultra-Short Competition features the best works of narrative fiction and poetry of 150 words or fewer. Submissions are typically received from six continents and a couple dozen countries. From these hundreds of submissions fifty to sixty works are chosen for the annual edition.

This volume contains works by:
Jenna Pashley Smith, Caroline Michalicki, Mara Buck, K. S. Dearsley, Meg Eden Kuyatt, Greg Beatty, AN Block, Barbara Brockway, Sarah Carleton, Vic Cavalli, Sally Clark, Kathleen Clauson, Graves Collins, SuzAnne C. Cole, Charlie Coleman, Sue Ann Connaughton, Barry Claude Dearborn, donnarkevic, Christina Woś Donnelly, J.C. Elkin, Deirdre Feehan, Monique Finley, Jan M. Flynn, Jennifer L. Freed, Tracy L. Grimaldi, Linda Flaherty Haltmaier, Debbie Okun Hill, Freya Jackson, Barbara Johnson, Debra Kirouac, Clyde Liffey, Ginger Marcinkowski, Doug Mathewson, Elizabeth Mayfield, Carol Dee Meeks, Hallie Moore, Beki Muchow, Lee Nash, Neal Allan Olmstead, Michelle Perez, Maria Picone, Adrian S. Potter, Francine Rubin, Katherine Sanger, Bendi Benson Schrambach, Maureen Sherbondy, Stephanie Slinn, Carol Smallwood, Erik Svehaug, Rachel Thorn, Shannon Camlin Ward, Carolyn Weisbecker, Chi Wen, and Jon Zelazny.

73 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 15, 2017

About the author

Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Gerard NeCastro, after graduating from Mercyhurst college, was an accountant and bookstore manager in Cranberry, Pennsylvania, and Redlands, California. While working as a bookseller by day, he returned to school at night, studying languages part-time and eventually joined the master’s program in English at the University of California – Riverside, where he began his long involvement with Chaucer, Dante, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama. When he completed his MA, he continued his studies in Medieval Literature at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. While he was there, he taught in the legendary Integrated Liberal Studies program where he developed his love of Art History.

Upon completion of his Ph.D., he taught for two years at the University of Maine – Orono, and then for many years both on the graduate faculty at Orono and the regular faculty at Machias, where, after teaching hundreds of classes and editing dozens of publications, he was named as Emeritus Professor of English and Humanities. After his retirement there, he began his second career at WLU in July 2017. He and Vicki, his wife of 30+ years, live in the quiet town of Bethany. When he is not serving as dean or teaching his classes, he spends his time reading, editing, gardening, and writing fiction and poetry. He is now revising his novels Columbine AS3 and The In-Law.