The Rural Literature Book Club is meeting online for the sixth time on March 2nd, 6pm GMT/ 1pm EST. Join people...
One Joe Dell, sitting on a basswood stump, looked at the dirty handkerchief, now bloody, that he had wrapped just...
It was the second day that Kate and her father walked beans. They had been out since seven a.m. to...
Adam clutches the rim of his Canadian Club and 7-Up, working the room of fellow farmers while I grip the...
Our first summer storm arrived in the wee hours of a warm mid-January morning. As lightning flickered against the curtains...
Judge Dr. Chea Parton has selected “Blood Brother” by Jeremy Haworth as the Best Short Story for the 2024 Best...
Darkroom The past would seem to exist beneath a red light behind a door seldom opened save to revisit photographs...
I Confess I’ve resorted to murder, here in my kitchen filled with basil, bee balm and thronging castes of blue-black...
My favorite inheritance is the green toy metal shovel. Also, the elfin-like ski-toed leather booties. Also, the pair of snowshoes,...
My Mother Considers Her Callows Farm From a parlour window I see sunlight creeping across the fields, and how some...
Foraging Pluck purslane and plantain for salad, shred it small so it slides by skeptics, know you’re kneeling in Eden...
Judge Dr. Chea Parton has selected “Rebounders” by Don Stewart as the Best Short Story for the 2024 Best in...