Paul Luikart

Paul Luikart

Paul Luikart is the author of the short story collections Animal Heart (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016) and Brief Instructions (Ghostbird Press, 2017.) His work is included in the 2019 Best Microfiction

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I’m writing this on Independence Day, the United States’ birthday, an odd time to be thinking about Burundi, but that’s exactly what I’m doing. Burundi is a tiny nation in