A licensed psychologist in private practice in New York City, Steven Mendel started writing after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Married for thirty-five years, he is a father of two and grandfather of one. He has published a self-help book, Love is Not Enough: Making Your Marriage Work September 2008. He has published eight fiction and three non-fiction pieces and is currently writing a novel about student radicals during the nineteen sixties. This is his second story published in Imitation Fruit. The first, Help Yourself was in the May 2009 issue. You can see more of Mendel's work at: www.lulu.nl/content/3330928

John Barrows is the art advisor for Imitation Fruit. He enjoys doing illustrations for the journal because it lets him have fun and be creative. You can see more of his work at: www.cre8vision.net