Author

Elaine Midcoh

Elaine Midcoh (a pen name) lives in Florida. Her sci-fi story, "The Battle of Donasi," was published in the "Writers of the Future, Volume 37" anthology and her story, "Man on the Moon," was the grand prize winner of the 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. Another of her stories will appear in Compelling Science Fiction (Flame Tree Press), an anthology to be released later this year. Her fiction has been published online by Flash Fiction Magazine, The Sunlight Press, and JewishFiction.net. Before jumping into writing, she worked as an attorney and college professor where she spent many happy years teaching law. These days you can often find her at her kitchen table, where she eats, writes, and gazes out the window to watch squirrels, ducks, and blue jays.

Easy as Pie

"You can't be right," she said. They were sitting at their kitchen table, the remnants of their meatloaf dinner already wrapped in tin foil. His gray hair was lit by the sun's rays streaming through the window. She sliced off another piece of peach pie and held it out to him,…