Michael Hickins is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing (Knopf, 1991). His own adventures include helping his wife run an American eatery in France and becoming an editor at The Wall Street Journal. His work has been published in literary magazines The Quarterly, MonkeyBicycle, New Dead Families, and Sententia. He lives with his family in New York City.As an indie author, all of Michael's work is DRM-free and intended for sharing. Please share generously. Michael has written rather a lot, and would very much like you to read what he has written. Follow him on the tubes at michaelmissing.com"Meditative and powerful." -- The Hartford Courant"Wise and wryly funny tales." -- People"Bizarre and sometimes baffling picaresque tales. [Hickins'] flip tone, gratuitous sex and violence... snide stories resemble underground comics" -- Publishers Weekly"Outrageously inventive" -- Library Journal