‘A Controlled Burn’ by Jared Beloff and Laurie Marshall


Jared Beloff is the author of Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023). He is the editor of the Marvel inspired poetry anthology, Marvelous Verses (Daily Drunk, 2021) and has been a peer-reviewer for Whale Road Review since 2021. His work can be found at Night Heron Barks, Baltimore Review, River Mouth Review, The Shore, Contrary Magazine and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @Read_Instead and his website www.jaredbeloff.com. He is a teacher who lives in Queens, NY with his wife and two daughters.


Laurie Marshall is a writer and artist working in Northwest Arkansas. Her words and art have been published in print and online literary journals and included in anthologies from Bath Flash Fiction, Belle Point Press and Best Small Fictions 2022. Her first book, a collection of flash fiction titled Proof of Life was released by ELJ Editions in April 2023.