Julie Howard is a former newspaper journalist and editor who has covered everything from crime to cowboy poetry. Her career was primarily spent with The Sacramento Bee, Las Vegas Review-Journal and the bygone Maturity News Service. In addition to The Dime Show Review, She’s had a number of fiction published in Across the Margin, Piker Press, and Literally Stories. She has a crime novel set to be published next year with a sequel in the works.

This ten word story was typed on a manual Underwood typewriter c. 1940’s. Let’s call him Rudy; an absolute joy to type on.

Photo credit: Kae Sable