About the Author
Richard Parks published his first story in Amazing in 1981. He has published over fifty more in the years since. His two collections to date are The Ogre’s Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups (2002) and Worshipping Small Gods (2007). A third, On the Banks of the River of Heaven, is due in 2010. Other books by Parks include the novella Hereafter and After (2007) and a novel, The Long Look (2008). Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and a varying number of cats.