Team Flame
Team Flame: A Hermit Crab Essay in Nine At-Bats
Gregory Ormson
Gregory Ormson is a writer, biker, yogi, teacher, speaker, desert rat, and former left-handed batter who was short enough to know he had better be fast. Growing up, his favorite player was Roberto Clemente, and both his high school and college teams wore maroon. Ormson once played a high school game on the same field where, twenty years earlier, Hammerin’ Hank Aaron began his professional career with the Eau Claire Bears. His writing has appeared in CutBank, Quarterly West, New Millennium Writings, American Rider, and elsewhere. He is the author of Yoga Song and the forthcoming Stories Emerge Like Bears. To stay warm while living in Upper Michigan, he once built a sauna. When he ran out of wood, he moved to the Arizona desert. gregoryormson.com
Michael C. Paul is an illustrator, writer, and historian. He grew up outside of Kansas City, has moved around a bit over the years working as a history professor, illustrator, and occasionally an editorial cartoonist, and now lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and daughter. For more, visit mikepaulart.com or @MikePaulArt.
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