Zakariah Johnson has been a mink rancher, commercial fisherman, and repeated target of hungry polar bears. His short fiction appears in Shotgun Honey, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Yellow Mama, and other fine outlets. Zakariah hails from NH where it juts up like New England’s defiant middle finger, and has recently finished his novel “The Cutting Game,” a knife-laden kidnapping tale set in the White Mountains.