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Ian Randall Wilson

Ian Randall Wilson has published two novellas, Great Things Are Coming and The Complex, and two story collections. His fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in many journals including The Gettysburg Review and North American Review. He has an MFA in Fiction and in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. By day, he is an executive at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles as the Vice-President of Marketing Contract Compliance. (This rather opaque title means that he makes sure all the names are spelled correctly on the Spider-Man™ movie posters.)

By Ian Randall Wilson

At 70

by Ian Randall Wilson

You wake up one morning alone at 70, your wife of 30 years newly dead from lung cancer, having promised at the start of your relationship to stop smoking and then deceived you all those years. How was it that you didn’t smell it on her? Didn’t find the cigarettes?

Summer 2026

The Sudden Change In Weather

by Ian Randall Wilson

On Friday, following a cold night, the thermometer outside the Theatre District branch of Peoples Bank read 90° at 9:03 A.M. Mayor Bloomberg was on time for the taping of his weekly address. Zwakker awoke in his hotel with the radio tuned to a Christian station demonizing Islam; he changed the time before he located

Spring 2016

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