By Joe Ponepinto

Joe Ponepinto has published stories in a wide variety of journals and magazines. He currently edits the literary journal Orca, and was the founding publisher and fiction editor of Tahoma Literary Review. He has an MFA in creative writing and teaches at Seattle’s Hugo House writing center. He has published two novels.
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Cloud Life

  She arrives a few minutes late for the appointment, hoping to appear fashionable, as if delayed by a function, but having used the extra time to subdue her anxiety. Surely, others have perpetrated this lie, pretended the affluence that could afford such a home just to get a look. She can’t help wondering how…