Mario Aliberto III’s short fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, The Pinch, trampset, Tahoma Literary Review, JMWW, and other fine journals. He is a SmokeLong Quarterly Workshop Prize runner-up, and his work has received nominations for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. A graduate with a Creative Writing degree from the University of South Florida, he lives in Tampa Bay with his wife and daughters, and yet the dog still runs the house.