‘Free Milk’

Alexander Jones has an English/Creative Writing BA. After graduating he went to trade school for metal fabrication. He’s placed short stories or poetry in Akashic Books, Bastion Magazine, Crack the Spine, DASH, Eunoia Review and other publications. Several of his short stories have received honorable mentions in Writer’s Digest’s annual contests, and one of his essays won GoRail’s 2012 contest; he got to meet his congressman in Washington DC and sit for a second in his comfy office chair inside the Capitol as his prize. He’s slowly earning a Master’s Degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He works as a welder for a metropolitan transportation agency near New York, and lives with his wife and son in New Jersey.