James C Cato

As a child, James Cato ate a sweet potato that was actually sour, changing his outlook in a big way. His book, Litter of the Waste, was co-written with his oldest friend. He has previous or incoming publications in The Molotov Cocktail, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Atticus Review, and The Colored Lens, among others. He tweets humbly @the_sour_potato and his work lives on jamescatoauthor.com/fiction. Author comments: [Working in the environmental sector in a community full of abandoned coal mines, I hear about contaminated drinking water, predatory wealth extraction, and subsidence every day. This story was born out of that threat. The story's structure was meant to invert the perceived timeline of resource extraction.]