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Short fiction/flash/comment by Alex M. Pruteanu

Since emigrating to the United States from Romania in 1980 Alex has worked as a day laborer, a film projectionist, a music store clerk, a journalist/news writer for the U.S. Information Agency (Voice of America English Broadcasts), a TV Director for MSNBC and CNBC, and a freelance writer. Currently he is editor of an education assessment software system at North Carolina State University. He is also a staff writer for The Lit Pub. You can find all his book reviews at The Lit Pub here.

You can also find his short stories that haven’t been published, or original versions (longer, un-edited) of published material on Fictionaut here.

Short stories and flash fiction published/forthcoming in:

Guernica Magazine
Pank Magazine

Blue Fifth Review
Atticus Review/Atticus Books
Thrush Poetry Journal
Marco Polo Arts Magazine
Scissors and Spackle
On Barcelona
BRICKrhetoric (p. 45 of the pdf issue)
Short, Fast, and Deadly (April, 2012 Issue, p.18)
Necessary Fiction
Used Furniture Review and again here
Subtle Fiction
Treehouse Magazine
Lost In Thought Magazine
Airplane Reading
The Legendary
Trainwrite
Camroc Press Review
The Rusty Nail
Girls With Insurance
Trick With a Knife
Bizarro Central
Amphibi.us
The Monarch Review
Connotation Press
Slingshot Litareview (and another)
Specter Literary Magazine
Yareah Literature and Arts Magazine
Merida: A Literary Magazine
Bong Is Bard
Jumping Blue Gods (and another)
Thunderclap Press (print) and online

Author of the novella  “Short Lean Cuts,” available as an e-book at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The paperback version is now available from Amazon Publishers here.

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