Kalvin M. Madsen is a fiction writer and poet living in Pasadena CA, and is the EIC of Low Hanging Fruit. His short story collection Hello, Receiver was released in 2019, and his upcoming poetry collection “Reasoning Machine” is set to release later this year.

I got to know my ghosts, they were apologetic and proud.

In the jailhouse of a small town in New Mexico, a rugged man named Porter sits in his cell with his eyes locked on the ground. He focuses on his breathing, inhaling with difficulty through his clogged nose and exhaling out his mouth.