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Kate Milliken

Kate Milliken lives in Los Angeles, California. She holds an MFA from Bennington College, works as a freelance writer, and is currently the Los Angeles Liaison for Post Road Magazine (when she's not volunteering for the superb folks at the 826LA.org after-school program). Kate's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Pearl, Folio, Flyway, the Southeast Review, the Santa Monica Review, and elsewhere. She can be reached at .

Helium Balloon

2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
fiction, flash fiction

My boyfriend is a helium balloon, way above me, gently tugging at my hand. His head tosses in the breeze, craning whichever way the wind blows, his neck long and flimsy. I tell my friends how jealous this makes me—that he's looking at other girls—and they say I am being silly.

Man Down Below

2 June 2004
Vol. 4, No. 2
fiction, short story, second person

You are minding your own business.

"Do you want to know what I think?" Eddie asks and you think, no dear god—not him again.