About the Author: Joshua Lillie is a bartender in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of the chapbook Small Talk Symphony (Finishing Line Press, 2025) and the collection The Outside They Built (Alien Buddha Press, 2025). In 2024, he was a finalist for the Jack McCarthy Book Prize Contest from Write Bloody Publishing. In his free time, he enjoys searching for lizards with his wife and cat.
Image Credit: Russell Lee “Untitled photo, possibly related to: Children of Earl Pauley, playing with dolls in tumbleweed, near Smithland, Iowa” Public domain image courtesy of The Library of Congress
As It Ought To Be 