Hugh Lessig’s short fiction has appeared in Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Crime Factory and Needle, plus the following anthologies: volumes 1 and 2 of Mickey Finn 21st Century Noir, the Guns + Tacos novella series, and Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties. His 36-year career as a newspaper reporter took him to Ecuador in 1997, post-earthquake Haiti in 2010, Ukraine in 2018, plus a lot of city council meetings in between.