She’s here, another new author at An Honest Lie, Jessica Stilling from the streets of the ultimate concrete jungle. Jessica brings us a tale of love’s disparity with “Girl Walks Into a Bar” available October 31, 2010 in An Honest Lie, Volume 2: Delusions of Insignificance. (See excerpt below) Get to know more about Jessica in her exclusive interview with the Junior Editor from Open Heart Publishing by clicking her picture below!

An excerpt from “Girl Walks Into a Bar”, by Jessica Stilling:

It’s dark when I reenter the bar, coming back as if I’ve never left. Still in my rumpled suit, as if I were simply in the bathroom. I reclaim my seat across from the old man, who is half asleep but still drinking, and the bartender nods to me, handing me a whisky. I don’t want a whisky, I want to be home, but when he gives it to me I don’t see the point in refusing. I’m sure I can get a tab if all else fails.

“I left my wallet here,” I say and he shrugs, looks away, turns around, starts helping the redhead with the dead husband.

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Jessica Stilling enjoys skiing, running, and wandering aimlessly, preferably in quiet, restful places. She currently lives in New York City, which can be surprisingly quiet and restful. Ms. Stilling is a very recent graduate of the MFA program at City College of the City University of New York and currently teaches there. She has been an editor for The Muse Apprenticeship Guild, The Olive Tree Review and The Castalia Project online zine, her brief attempt at founding a literary journal in college. She has been previously published in many publications including The Mini-Mag, City Writers, Children, Churches and Daddies, Birmingham Words, Open Wide, The Hawai’i Pacific Review, Audience, Existere, Cause and Effect, The Blotter, Skyline Review and Kudzu. A story of hers was a finalist in the Summer Literary Seminars Kenya Contest and she is the winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts Chapter One award for her unpublished novel, Alice Down the Basement Window, which is currently being represented by Foundry Literary and Media. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband Adam and her son Addison.