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Jay Sturner: Walking the Suburb

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Art by W. Jack Savage © 2024

Walking the Suburb

 

by Jay Sturner

 

Moon full and bright

an urge to run with wolves

tear out the jugular

of this mundane city

 

 

 

Jay Sturner is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and naturalist from the Chicago suburbs. He is the author of several books of poetry and a collection of short stories. His writing has appeared in such publications as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Space & Time, Spectral Realms, Not One of Us, and Star*Line, among others. He mainly writes fantasy, horror, and science fiction, but occasionally writes in other genres. Sturner is also a professional birdwalk leader and former botanist.

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of eight books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com).  To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over a thousand of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.

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