My short story “We’re All Guys Here” appears in this month’s issue of [PANK] Magazine. What does PANK mean? No one knows. It could mean to lightly spank, or to tamp down.
Edited by Roxane Gay, M. Bartley Siegel, and Brad Green, it surely stands for good poetry and fiction, and I’m proud to join the illustrious legions of the panked. I needed a good panking… go get yours.

Thomas Pluck writes unflinching fiction with heart. His stories have appeared in Big Pulp, Needle, Stupefying Stories, The Utne Reader Burnt Bridge, [PANK] magazine, Crime Factory, Spinetingler, Beat to a Pulp, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and elsewhere. He edits the Lost Children charity anthologies to benefit PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children, and writes 


"The Story of O Street" in Oh Sandy: An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Cause
"Kamikaze Death Burgers at the Ghost Town Cafe" in Feeding Kate
"Acapulcolypse" in Nightfalls: Notes from the End of the World
"The Rock Ridge Ringer" in Hills of Fire: Bare-Knuckle Yarns of Appalachia
"Train" in Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels
"Garbage Man" in Beat to a Pulp: Superhero



The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology (Amazon Kindle & Paperback)
That’s a very fine story, Tom.
Thank you very much, Patti.