Author

Ben Black

Ben Black teaches at San Francisco State University, where he also completed my MFA. His work has been published in The Southampton Review, New American Writing, Quaterly West, Harpur Palate, and The Los Angeles Review. His stories have been finalists for the Calvino Prize, the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest, and the Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose.

The New Trees

The new trees aren't so different. Yes, they drop their leaves all at once instead of one at a time. Yes, the leaf piles quickly turn into quivering gelatinous blobs. Yes, these blobs have some rudimentary sentience. But they are still lovely to walk beneath, like the old trees.…