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Tag Archives: Fiction
The Stray Cat, fiction by CL Bledsoe
Joey had been successfully dodging Tommy, who’d had been tweaked out on homemade meth for nearly a week, until Tommy decided he’d had enough of the stray cat nosing around the house. So he told Joey to leave some tuna … Continue reading
Lazarus, fiction by Brenda Rose
His boy had been dead eight days when the preacher picked up the black, worn King James Bible with his name engraved in gold on the leather cover, and reinserted himself in the pulpit of the Mt. Calvary Holy Ghost … Continue reading
Hill Tide, fiction by William Trent Pancoast
As Violet jostled among the church crowd and exchanged greetings, she tried to recall the sound of the spring that spurted year round from the base of the hill behind the cabin. But the voices and heat prevented her from … Continue reading
What He Asked, and How She Answered, fiction by Brian Carr
At the window, with it open, as rain sang across the land once dry, so the rain slipped in threads of current down cracks and toward the lows, the man wiped his glasses free of spray—beads that had hit the … Continue reading
Four Day Worry Blues, fiction by Murray Dunlap
Round 1: I’m naked to the waist. The first blow comes in low and fast. I weave left, but his fist catches my right oblique. I spit blood onto bare feet and uppercut with my right. I miss. His jab … Continue reading
Prairie, fiction by Ben Werner
His team had won the state championship and after the celebration on field petered out and the lights atop the poles had clunked off for the last time, he went to the party. Picked up Bre on the way there, … Continue reading
The Emily Interview, fiction by Stephanie Dickinson
* Remember for me the day your mother made you quit school. February 1902. I help her pluck two chickens and yet I want to clean away her crime. Wipe the red rain from the snow where the hens struggled … Continue reading
Dog, fiction by Charles McLeod
When I was twelve my dad stole payload from auger mines a county north of where we lived. Mom had fallen off a truss bridge drunk the summer prior and no thing, small or large, would bring her back. So … Continue reading
Treet™, Trash, and Pride: Finding Out What It Means for Me to Be Southern, essay by Kevin Brown
I have lived almost all of my life in the South, but I have never felt particularly Southern. However, the two years I have lived outside of the South have taught me just how wrong I have been. They have … Continue reading
The Miner's Friend, by Jeff Kerr
I fight the Mack truck around the bends of the mountains and I’m goddamned tired. Going back to pick up the last load of coal at Number 16 over on the Virginia side. My arm is sunburnt and hangs out … Continue reading
