While waiting for his father, John stood in front of the aviary in the empty rec room, trying to remember the name of the small birds flitting behind the plexig...
Rick Taliaferro is a technical writer who pursues creative writing in his spare time. He’s had several short stories and one YA novel (CASCADES) published. Journal experience includes eight years as an associate editor at Bartleby Snopes, and from December 2023 to March 2025, he was an associate editor at Fiction on the Web.