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

Spill Stories:
Veins, Like a System
by Eshani Surya

March 26, 2018

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

March 25, 2018

Fiction

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...

All the Sweet and Beautiful Boys
by Linda Ferguson

February 21, 2018

Fiction

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Ella and I are in the big bed with the fine sheets, and we can’t stop giggling over the thrill of an unexpected knock on our door that evening... Read More...

N-Place Exiting
by Thomas Ausa

February 1, 2018

Contest, Fiction

Winner : Terrain.org 8th Annual Contest in Fiction 1. The cumulative rumbling of the box fan in the master bedroom usually aw... Read More...

The Stilled Ring: Fiction by Luther Allen

The Stilled Ring
by Luther Allen

January 18, 2018

Contest, Fiction

Finalist : Terrain.org 8th Annual Contest in Fiction He stood, shoulders slumped, in the midst of the cluttered garage. Bewild... Read More...

pH: A Novel Excerpt
by Nancy Lord

December 8, 2017

Fiction

It was cold, standing at the ship’s rail that early on a September morning, without a hat. Ray’s annoyance at having left his wool cap in his ... Read More...

Solution
by Amy P. Knight

November 6, 2017

Fiction

After dominating the southwest in the high school Math Team competition for three straight years, we had finally found the unsolvable math pro... Read More...

The Will of the Path
by Al Sim

September 12, 2017

Fiction

I wish I still had the map my uncle made for me. Even done in his shaky hand as he approached death his work was beautiful. Or at least to my ... Read More...

What I Remember About
Captain Horace Holtkamp
by Andrew Furman

August 1, 2017

Fiction

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First time I saw him he was shaking salt from a big blue box into an even bigger plastic bag bursting with pilchards and sardines and greenies... Read More...

Remembering Origins, fiction by Susan Feathers

Remembering Origins
by Susan Feathers

June 11, 2017

Fiction

Click button above to hear Susan Feathers read this novel excerpt, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. It was Dolores ... Read More...

Gifted: An Excerpt
by John Daniel

May 23, 2017

Fiction

Introduction from the Author: Henry Fielder, the 15-year-old son of a western Oregon millworker, lost his mother three months ago. His father ... Read More...

Have You Been Here Long
by Emily Taylor

April 11, 2017

Fiction

When the bell rang, the ledger was long closed. Fiona didn’t hear Gabor rise from the sunken couch in the TV lounge. The beds creaked in some ... Read More...