Into the Forest Like a Ghost: An Excerpt
by Katy Yocom
“The animals will teach us something new today.”
Sarah awoke before dawn to a chilly apartment. She dressed in her warmest cloth... Read More...
Like a Crow: An Excerpt
by Kimi Eisele
The cabdriver Fernando had traded his family’s basement apartment for a full tank of gas and three five-gallon containers of reserve. Carson p... Read More...
Five Fictions from Scott Russell Sanders
with Photographs by Peter Forbes
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Stones
Are st... Read More...
Lolo in the Mountains
by Maya Mahony
Lolo grows up in Stockton, California, until he is seven and his sister Ceci is 12. That’s when they pass a gang fight on the walk home from s... Read More...
Three Fictions
by Aurelie Sheehan
Birthday
On my 40th birthday I swam in the Liffey, or my tears were mixing with the Liffey, or I was pouring a beer into the Liffey, or I too... Read More...
Discrimen
by E.R. Murray
It’s October; our favorite month. My husband and I should be digging out golden wonders, not a grave.
“It feels like you’re my only buddy lef... Read More...
A Brief Map of There
by Erin Fristad
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Ketchikan
I am not Ketchi... Read More...
Some Day All the Babies Will be Brown
by Jennifer Acker
A modest front yard featured three young, bitten trees, barely visible at this hour. The place had been recently painted, a subtle green Sunil... Read More...
Magdalena Mountain:
Excerpts from a Place-Based Novel
by Robert Michael Pyle
1.
The yellow Karmann Ghia left the road at 45. Its tires never scored the soft tissue of the tundra. It simply flew over the edge, into the ... Read More...
Two Pastorals
by Marvin Shackelford
Loose Pastoral
Beech Hill, Tennessee
1.
One of the guys Jana brought down from Culleoka walks off up the hill and comes back later ... Read More...
In the Frying Pan
by Mary Alice Long
Ernest sat at the top of the steps of their new porch, thinking to go looking through unpacked boxes for a hose and sprinkler. He watched an a... Read More...
Out of Good Ground
by John Thomson
Winner : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Fiction
It’s November in Michigan. I’m traveling through the snow with my mother and... Read More...
