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...
Caverns
by Kara Delemeester
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
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
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On the drive to work tod... Read More...
No Entry
by Gila Green
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
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
by Andrew Furman
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
Captain Lise Sheridan—recently discharged honorably from the 10th Combat Support Hospital, U.S. Army—knew with tremendous certainty, as she sa... Read More...
Third of July
by Ben Ristow
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Barry had spent the a... Read More...
Spill Stories:
Veins, Like a System
by Eshani Surya
Spill Stories is a new Terrain.org series that fuses the interactive climate justice story maps of the Climate Alliance Mapping Project with t... Read More...
Piano Tide: Two Excerpts
by Kathleen Dean Moore
Tick walked a circle around the new woman’s cargo. Somebody who knew knots had tied that tarp up—a single trucker’s hitch, no nonsense.
“What... Read More...
