My short story for May 2011 is now available on my website.
THE BIG MAX (Copyright © Arliss Ryan, 1989) was published in Ellipsis (Volume Three, 1989). Although I took the setting for this story from the California apartment complex in which my husband and I lived for a year, I hasten to say that all of our neighbors there were perfectly sane and friendly people. My only explanation for “The Big Max” is my fondness for oddball characters.
Enjoy!