Author

John Rhea

John is a storyteller with design and development skills. By day he designs and builds websites, by night he spins sci-fi stories at StoryLab (storylab.us) and counts his words carefully at 8wordstories.com. He has a wife, five kids, five cats, four dogs, and a small army of fish. If he remembers to wear pants, it;s been a good day.

Holla at him, compliment his tastes in thirteenth century Greenlandic literature, and argue with him over minutia (like if he spelled "Holla" correctly or whether Greenland had any independent literature in the thirteenth century) on twitter @storykaboom

This is his first professionally published work.

The Wizard of Wall Street

Not so many years ago, Wall Street had its very own wizard. He was typical of wizards--eccentric, bearded, and obsessed with numbers. He mumbled to himself and rarely bathed, but wherever he went a stream of hungry young traders followed him. They tried to catch every…