Previously, novelist Gráinne Murphy announced her shortlist of three essays and ten short stories for the 2023 Best in Rural...
The inaugural Best in Rural Writing Contest has now come to an end. The Milk House is grateful to the...
A story from rural Kenya. From the Becoming Erick Collection. Edited by Poppy Johnson. A Mother’s Manual Dreamily he watched,...
Emerging from the fog bank, the Beatrix appeared before them, a sleeping leviathan suddenly filling their vision in the twilight...
You need to pick up a few things, she told James. I am too tired, he said. Can’t it wait...
Someone, or something, was stealing Jopson’s apple-blossom. Three small apple trees in pots stood on his front path. A supermarket...
After an incredible response from writers that resulted in a large collection of talented work, judge Gráinne Murphy took on...
I was twelve when I figured out God. Mom was a devout Presbyterian who taught Sunday school. Every evening she...
It was a struggle for her, getting around to the back of the house this morning to gather up the...
Backhoe Bob sat in the gas-station diner with the Sheriff, who also happened to be named Bob. Locals have been...
“Bloom where you are planted.” So said the sign that hung over Ryan Berg’s stove. The rectangular wooden plaque was...
You turn the corner. Two high windows already open like eyelids. The house awake. Mum slows the car. Puts the...