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Jim Heynen

Jim Heynen has published dozens of books including novels, short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His stories about 'The boys' have been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and the Minnesota astronaut George Pinky Nelson took a taped collection of Heynen's stories for bedtime listening on his last space mission. Heynen's most recent collection about boys, The Boys' House, was named Editor's Choice for Best Books of 2001 by the Bloomsbury Review, Newsday, and Booklist. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Paranoid Retired Gentleman and His Library Visit

8 November 2009
Vol. 9, No. 3
fiction, flash fiction

To him, the problem with a public library was that it had too much sincerity about it. Everything was so nonprofit and earnest. Even the posters showed a pacifist propriety. He felt judged by the public library.

The Wondrous Quiet Life

5 November 2009
Vol. 9, No. 3
fiction, flash fiction

She was sixty-two and widowed. Church people did not recognize her, but people at the animal shelter did. People at the shopping mall did not recognize her, but people at the library did. In this woman's life, there were more books than traffic lights, more cats than cell phones, more vegetables than credit cards.