Michael Poore’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Glimmer Train, AGNI, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. His novel, Up Jumps the Devil, hailed by the New York Review of Books as “an elegiac masterpiece,” is available from HarperCollins. His story “The Street of the House of the Sun,” originally published in The Pinch, was reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012.
Michael Poore has the following works available at Clarkesworld:
The animals hate you. You get used to that, working at a zoo. Over time, it becomes a thing you can respect. Bell trudged up the path, pushing the wheelbarrow before him, already sweating under his brown khaki uniform. He squinted in the bright sunlight, eyeing the exhibits as he ascended the hill: the goats […]
