The Binnacle: Ninth Annual Ultra-Short Edition

by Gerard NeCastro (Editor), Debbie Okun Hill (Contributor), Erik Svehaug (Contributor)

The Binnacle’s Annual International Ultra-Short Competition features the best works of narrative fiction and poetry of 150 words or fewer.

This volume contains works by Erik Svehaug, Cynthia Tracy Larsen, Lisa Ricard Claro, Jordan Gilletti, Amber G. Meade, Carol Carpenter, Chad Greene, Christina Wos Donnelly, Christine Bodine, Christopher L. Irvin, David Mohan, Dawn Sperber, Debbie Okun Hill, Diane Smith, Donald Gibson, Ellen Birkett Morris, Ellen Denton, Ellen La Fleche, Fehmida Zakeer, J. M. Sirrico, Jerry Kraft, Joan B Flood, Joel Shulkin, John Davies, Jude Marr, Julia Escoria, K. S. Dearsley, Karen G. Berry, Katelyn Morris, Kathleen Clauson, Kevin Smith, Laurie Merritt Larkin, Liz Hufford, Louise Hegarty, Lucy Bacon, Lyn Michaud, Mara Klecker, Marcy Campbell, Maureen Paley, Michelle Lau, Natalie McNabb, Nate Worrell, Nora Nadjarian, R.F. Marazas, Rasheeda Azam, Robert A. Lindblom, Robert Montroll, Sally Clark, Samantha Priestley, Shaleen Keshavjee-Gulam, Shawn Marie Mann, Sue Ann Connaughton, Sue Mayfield Geiger, Toni Giarnese, Toni Somers, and Tucker Cummings.

70 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.