Timothy Hurley is a fiction writer and retired physician. Timothy lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York and Petaluma, California, where they have no dogs, cats or pet lizards. They celebrated their forty-fourth wedding anniversary the day of the Mayan Apocalypse 2012 and survived both. Timothy never runs for elevators. His first novel, Johnny Don't March, was published January 2015. His work has appeared in The Satirist; Fiction and Verse; Scatterplot; Humor Press; The Story Shack; One Million Stories; Senior Correspondent; the Avalon Literary Review; and the print anthologies Open Doors Fractured Fairy Tales; Another Left Shoe; Open Doors Myths; Theme-thology Invasion; and Dark Muses Spoken Silences. His second novel is about homelessness. In his spare time he works on a medical school memoir, a remembrance of his father, and a second collection of short stories. Timothy blogs at timothyhurleyauthor.blogspot.com.