Laura Hulthen Thomas heads the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan’s Residential College. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of journals, including Oleander Review, The Cimarron Review, and Nimrod. Her story “Bones on Bois Blanc” appears this fall in Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, a collection of ghost stories published by Wayne State University Press.
Krupov’s Gym
After Krupov secured his first dishonest contract, a gymnasium renovation and technology upgrades to Tverkassa’s only K–8 school, he vowed to scrub the corrupt job clean, but the project had been jinxed from the moment he’d bribed two old-guard cronies on the city council to give him the job. When a strike at the factory...
