Judge Dr. Chea Parton has selected “Blood Brother” by Jeremy Haworth as the Best Short Story for the 2024 Best...
“Coach, it’s supposed to rain tomorrow and our raisins are still drying on the ground. My father needs my brother...
We set out on the seven-mile journey from No. 56 to Knockdrin at 7.30 in the morning. The sun had...
It was the farthest north they had ever been. L’il Markie and Frank traveled with their mom to New York...
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Last Night The three most important women in my life were very sick, probably dying. I didn’t know what was...
Robert Andrews had a fondness for April, when rain fell daily and water puddled ankle-deep in the low areas around...
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Old Man lived at the peak of Ghosten Mountain, not two miles from my boyhood home. Covered in pine and...
1 In one day, six months ago, Louis Paradis became a husband and a farmer. He had the date engraved...
The rain is a hell of a thing. It can bring us back to memories of the past, those memories...
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.” – Alice Walker My dad kept some Arabian horses for a time, when...