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‘The Failure Ward’

 

The Failure Ward

by Ken O’Steen

 

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Ken O’Steen

Ken O’Steen’s short stories have appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Fjords Review, Eclectica, The Westchester Review, Litro, Switchback, ELM, Crack the Spine, Halfway Down the Stairs, Pif Magazine, Blue Lake Review, Whistling Shade, Fiction Week Literary Review, Literary Juice, Connotation Press, Flash Fiction Magazine, Litbreak, Sleet, Quail Bell Magazine, Riggwelter, The Wolfian, New Pop Lit, and Saltfront. “Dinner at Musso and Frank,” appeared in the anthology, “The Muse in the Bottle: Great Writers on the Joys of Drinking,” published by Citadel. The novel “Peeko Pacifiko” was published in 2011. The author is from Los Angeles, and currently lives in Vermont.

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