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Karen Heuler

Karen Heuler’s stories have appeared in over seventy literary and speculative magazines and anthologies, from Alaska Quarterly Review to Weird Tales. She has received an O. Henry Award, been a finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Bellwether Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction, among others. Her last story collection, The Inner City, was published by ChiZine Publications and was a Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013 selection.


Summer 2015

Bright Bright Bedlam

By Karen Heuler

We have to be careful because our residents can go wandering. Canes, walkers and even wheelchairs don’t hold some of them back when the idea takes them to go off somewhere.