Roe River Review is a journal of fiction.

Table of Contents

Ziggy’s Last Cigarette…...…………………………….1

Kenneth M. Kapp

Warrant……………….………………………………………...5

Erik Peters

Kitchen Lizards and Lounge Lizards……………………7

Patrick Johnston

Misplaced…………………………………………………….....8

Christopher Stolle

To Serve in Retail Hell…………...……………...…………12

Alaina Hammond

Saving More than $500…………..……………...…………14

Niles Reddick

Contributors………………………………………………….16

Contributors

Alaina Hammond is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and visual artist. Her poems, plays, short stories, philosophical essays, creative nonfiction, paintings, drawings and photographs have been published both online and in print. https://www.instagram.com/alainaheidelberger

Patrick Johnston is a UK-born writer and former professor of psychology and neuroscience. Living nomadically, he writes fiction and poetry that fracture memory, myth, and noir absurdism into experimental collages. His work has appeared in The Louisville Review, Love and Literature, Blood & Honey Review, and The Bookends Review.

Kenneth M. Kapp lives with his wife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, writing late at night in his man-cave. He enjoys chamber music and mysteries. Please visit www.kmkbooks.com. His stories have appeared in more than ninety publications world-wide.

Erik Peters is a father and avid mediaevalist from Vancouver, Canada. His writing is influenced by late antiquity, his family, and his students. Erik has been featured in Coffin Bell, Zoetic, Takahe, Beyond Literary Words, and Thirty West. You can check out all Erik's work at erikpeters.ca.

Niles Reddick is author of a novel, four short fiction collections, and two novellas. His work has appeared in over five hundred publications including The Saturday Evening Post (which ranked him among the Top Ten Most Popular New Fiction of 2019), Cheap Pop, Flash Fiction Magazine, Citron Review, Midway Journal, Hong Kong Review, and Vestal Review. He is an eight-time Pushcart nominee, a three-time Best of the Net nominee, and a three-time Best Micro nominee.

Christopher Stolle has many roles: writer, uncle, better half, music aficionado, and baseball enthusiast. His writing has been published by Indiana University Press, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Coaches Choice, Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island, and Plath Poetry Project, among many others. He has two Pushcart nominations and lives in Richmond, Indiana.