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Nicholas Grider's first story collection Misadventure (A Strange Object, 2014) was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize, and their/her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, Okay Donkey, Queen Mob's Tea House, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. They live in the upper midwest and are an assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel; more information about Grider and their work can be found at www.nicholasgrider.com as of Sept. 1st.

Forest of Borders collects sixteen of Grider's flash stories written in the last five years, all fewer than 1500 words and all exploring, from a variety of angles, what happens when "average" American white men attempt to establish and police borders between each other and between themselves and the world. In the stories, as in life, things rarely go according to plan.

"Plagues and Obligations" (as Simon Henry Stein)

http://x-r-a-y.com/plagues-and-obligations-by-simon-henry-stein/fiction/ 

"Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)"

http://thefanzine.com/big-ideas-dont-get-any/

"Same Husband Twice"

https://queenmobs.com/2019/07/fiction-the-same-husband-twice/