Once upon a time, God created the universe in five days that took 14.5 billion years. On the sixth day, after He'd finished flying and creeping things, He said, "Let us create man in our image and likeness" (Genesis 1:26). Who God was talking to and what He meant by "us," nobody knew for sure. And since He was invisible, His "image and likeness" reference became another imponderable to future generations.
The author is a Pushcart Fiction Prize nominee, and has been a finalist for the Faulkner Award, Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren, America’s Best, Narrative, Glimmer Train, Helicon Nine, and Heekin Graywolf Fellowship. His current short fiction appears in The Evergreen Review, Cortland Review, The Morning Newes, Scholars & Rogues, and Inkwell.
