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George Choundas

George Choundas has fiction and nonfiction in over forty-five publications including Southern Review, Harvard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Subtropics. His stories have been selected for inclusion in The Best Small Fictions 2015 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is winner of the New Millennium Award for Fiction, a former FBI agent, and half Greek/half Cuban. His interests include films with scarabs.

Spring 2016

The Old Hok Wisdom

By George Choundas

The royals of Beflou eat to capacity and don’t stop. Once full, they dispense with swallowing. They chew up their food and—having exhausted flavor, texture, moisture—spit it into little bowls […]