“I could open the case, have a peek, and sneak out again. Just a peek. No one would know…”

— Uncle Dougie's Suitcase, Alastair Chisholm

Ryan Shoemaker

A Pushcart-nominated writer, Ryan Shoemaker is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the The MacGuffin, Weber: The Contemporary West, Santa Monica Review, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, where he won the 2008 Best in Fiction Award, as well as two New Voices awards. Ryan lives in Burbank, California with his wife, Jennifer, and two children, Kieran and Haven.

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'After All the Fun We Had' in All These Little Worlds

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