Michael Hartford: 3 books

"The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own." "Michael Hartford's "Ichthyology" is brutal and eloquently told, a brilliant carnage of a story about a half-girl, half-reptilian fish whose provocative imagery swells up from the page." - Brooke Hall, "Baltimore City Paper"

A short story about memory, time, and the things we lose.

Even poets have impossible ambitions.A short story, originally published in Lily Lit Review, April 2006; includes a longer unpublished version.