Fiction Archives • Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

Some Day All the Babies Will be Brown
by Jennifer Acker

April 17, 2019

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

March 20, 2019

Fiction

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

March 5, 2019

Fiction

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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

February 15, 2019

Fiction

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

January 31, 2019

Contest, Fiction

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...

Caverns
by Kara Delemeester

January 25, 2019

Contest, Fiction

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Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Fiction It was Kathleen’s idea to come to the caverns. She’d heard about them on a... Read More...

Vax
by Alan Barstow

January 15, 2019

Contest, Fiction

Finalist : Terrain.org 9th Annual Contest in Fiction Midmorning we came across a family of Ngoma herders making camp in a grove... Read More...

Fairy Tale
by Sean Johnston

December 11, 2018

Fiction

Click button above to hear Sean Johnston read this story, or click here to download story in .mp3 format. On the drive to work tod... Read More...

No Entry
by Gila Green

September 12, 2018

Fiction

Yael scrambles to put on the new tea-colored hiking boots her parents sent, sliding her feet into the stiff leather. She switches off the air ... Read More...

Changelings
by Carolyn Oliver

July 24, 2018

Fiction

Engrossed by the submarines stalking each other through the abyss, Maeve mistook the sound in the chimney for a clump of snow falling through ... Read More...

Florida, 1961: On the Grove, a Novel Excerpt by Andrew Furman

Florida, 1961: On the Grove
by Andrew Furman

July 12, 2018

Fiction

Isaac Golden shuffled the potatoes about the plate, his cutlery clinking profanities. He had identified the counterfeit liquid at a glance, re... Read More...

Bitter Nights and Days
by Katie Rogin

June 19, 2018

Fiction

Captain Lise Sheridan—recently discharged honorably from the 10th Combat Support Hospital, U.S. Army—knew with tremendous certainty, as she sa... Read More...