Whitney Collins

Whitney Collins is a 2020 Pushcart Prize recipient, a 2020 Pushcart Prize Special Mention recipient, and winner of American Short Fiction’s 2020 Short(er) Fiction Prize. Her debut story collection, Big Bad (Sarabande Books), won the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories appear or are forthcoming in AGNI, Slice, The Pinch, Grist, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, the Chattahoochee Review, and Catapult’s Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror anthology, among others.

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Whitney Collins  | 
Issue 70.2 Spring 2021

It was 1987. Everyone Dominick knew was gorging, engorged, gorgeous. There was finally enough money. People could buy the tap shoes, the electric toothbrushes, the giant faux-wood microwaves big enough to hold Butterballs. They could afford a year’s supply of the old red Doritos and the new blue Doritos and the old Coke and the […]