Andy Echevarria has short stories published in such magazines and e-zines as Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Black Petals, Static Movement, Aphelion, among others. His suspense tale, “Thirteen Black Pumpkins,” is forthcoming in Whortleberry Press’ Halloween anthology. Throughout his life he has been a clerk, cashier, telemarketer, and even spent several months on a kibbutz picking bananas. A native New Yorker, he now lives in South Florida.