Jason Ockert
Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and two collections of short stories, Neighbors of Nothing and Rabbit Punches. His honors include the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, the Atlantic Monthly Fiction Contest, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, as well as inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories. His stories appear or are forthcoming in Granta, Oxford American, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University.
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Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
US Airways Bombardier class CRJ200, flight number 1745, departs from O’Hare International ahead of schedule—7:22 p.m.—en route to LaGuardia International. Upon the regional jet, including crew, are thirty-four people. The pilot’s name is Jennifer Hughes; copilot is Simon Wentworth. Though all the passengers have names, identities evaporate after clambering into their assigned seats. In an […]
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Defamiliarizing the Familiar
A conversation between contributor Jason Ockert and Derek Bracy on Ockert’s fiction piece “Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You”