Elan Maier

Elan Maier grew up on the mean streets of Silicon Valley. He graduated with a Creative Writing master’s from Oxford University. His writing has been published in the Appalachian Review, Assignment Literary Magazine, and Queens Review. He was a recent finalist in the Screencraft Cinematic Prose competition and now resides in New York City.

The Face in Between

Arleen Dunson was there. She was there, outside Boise, among the other surrounding police, when three pit bulls came blitzing towards tactical from around the corner of the decrepit house, like sharks with legs, swinging ropes of drool, rodeo-eyed and thinking kill kill kill. Two of the dogs were hooked and pulled away, no problem. The last one, incensed and alone in the dust, bucked and sprung back and forth…

Elan Maier

Elan Maier grew up on the mean streets of Silicon Valley. He graduated with a Creative Writing master’s from Oxford University. His writing has been published in the Appalachian Review, Assignment Literary Magazine, and Queens Review. He was a recent finalist in the Screencraft Cinematic Prose competition and now resides in New York City.

The Face in Between

Arleen Dunson was there. She was there, outside Boise, among the other surrounding police, when three pit bulls came blitzing towards tactical from around the corner of the decrepit house, like sharks with legs, swinging ropes of drool, rodeo-eyed and thinking kill kill kill. Two of the dogs were hooked and pulled away, no problem. The last one, incensed and alone in the dust, bucked and sprung back and forth…

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