The inaugural Best in Rural Writing Contest has now come to an end. The Milk House is grateful to the...
How peculiar. Before, David had turned off the main road, walked up the potholed lane, climbed over a rickety stile,...
Previously, novelist Gráinne Murphy announced her shortlist of three essays and ten short stories for the 2023 Best in Rural...
The question may be raised why we chose precisely the past of a city to compare with the past of...
I was twelve when I figured out God. Mom was a devout Presbyterian who taught Sunday school. Every evening she...
THE PARLOR is a series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can find...
Exhaust Down the country road I witnessed a lengthy cordial visit. An older man was gabbing colorfully with the farmer’s...
Emerging from the fog bank, the Beatrix appeared before them, a sleeping leviathan suddenly filling their vision in the twilight...
Ciboloto Miss Yang gone to the Western Hemisphere never been back since seeds on her desk have sprouted and grown...
After an incredible response from writers that resulted in a large collection of talented work, judge Gráinne Murphy took on...
William Shakespeare managed to pack an awful lot of drama into his graveyard scene in Hamlet. In fewer than three...
Ezra Ray and I grew up together in a small South Georgia town of no more than three thousand persons....