Thomas Small

Mr. Small earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers-Newark. His fiction has been published in The Cooweescoowee, The Santa Fe Literary Review and Passages North among others. His creative non-fiction has been published in Amoskeag. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories. He and his wife live in northeastern Pennsylvania with their dog Frankie, who is obsessed with chipmunks.

A Colony of Mutant Flamingos

Jeremy Wilkins died the summer I was fourteen. Accident was noted as the official cause of death. That was more a testament of his father’s ability to control the situation, by keeping the word suicide off the death certificate. I spent a lot of time with Jeremy that last summer and was overwhelmed with the enormity of what he’d done. Mostly, I was surprised by people’s reactions to it.
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