Team Flame
Team Flame: A Hermit Crab Essay in Nine At-Bats
Gregory Ormson
Gregory Ormson is a Midwest transplant living in Arizona where he writes and teaches yoga. He’s worked as a college teacher, preacher, journalist, business writer, and sports writer. In 2017, he won Eastern Iowa Review’s Lyric Narrative Non-Fiction Award for “Midwest Intimations” and in 2016, Indiana Review’s 13-word story contest. His work has been published in Quarterly West, Cutbank, Eastern Iowa Review, The Empty Mirror, The Good Men Project, Trinity Seminary Review, The Seventh Quarry (Wales) and others. He’s an occasional cigar smoker and a Harley-Davidson-riding yogi with a philosophy problem. A current conundrum: to be a Diamondback fan or stay with his Milwaukee Brewers. Find him at gregoryormson.com or @motorcyclingyogig.
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.