BJ Fischer's (@fischerbj) short story "Serenissima" was published in May in "The View From Here." "The Terrible Day of the Wisecrack" was published in February in the Linden Avenue Literary Journal, and "The True Story of Valley Forge Fries", was published in March 2014 by Blue Lake Review. His essays have appeared in The Fiddleback, Ardor, The (Toledo) Blade, the Bygone Bureau, Punchnel's, Thought Catalog, Impose Magazine, the Minneapolis Review of Baseball, midmajority.com, and Ontologica.