Allison Amend, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is the author of the novel A Nearly Perfect Copy, the Independent Publisher Book Award-winning short story collection Things That Pass for Love and the novel Stations West, which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award. She lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Lehman College and for the Red Earth MFA program. http://www.allisonamend.com or http://www.facebook.com/AllisonAmendAuthor
The room wiggled and writhed, as though a pre-storm wind were blowing across a pond. Wall made the mistake of breathing in through his nose, then immediately gagged.