Raised in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Elizabeth Conway has her MFA from the University of Montana, Missoula. She is former Editor-in-Chief of the university's literary journal, CutBank, and is currently a Fiction Editor at Literary Mama. Her fiction has been a finalist in Glimmer Train's Open Fiction contest, Reed Magazine's John Steinbeck Award and The Southeast Review's World's Best Short-Short Story Contest. More recently, her work is found in New Flash Fiction Review, Blue Earth Review, Fractured Lit, and elsewhere. Conway is a recipient of the Michael Kenneth Smith Fellowship for her novel manuscript, Bioluminescence.
The fire started somewhere near the southeast end of the building. It spread quickly through the open corridors — the wide hallways built specifically to allow wheelchairs and hospital beds to pass unobstructed — sucking in oxygen and climbing from the floor to the walls to the ceiling with ease. There wasn’t a sprinkler system […]