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by John Van Rys

Spiral-bound

Published November 30, 2005

About the author

John Van Rys lives on a hobby farm outside Dunnville, Ontario, Canada, with his wife April, dogs, cats, horses, Cayuga ducks, and free-run egg-laying hens, as well as two of his adult children, their partners, two granddaughters—and, just to keep things interesting, his mother-in-law. He’s had short stories published in The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, Agnes and True, Blank Spaces, and Solum Literary Journal. His story “Excavations” won the 2022 Prairie Fire MRB Short Fiction Contest. His first book-length collection, the story cycle Moonshine Promises, was published in 2021 by Wipf and Stock. His debut novel, Milksop, was published May 2026 by Chicken House Press.