I was only fifteen when we lost our farm and had to move into town. All the stock and equipment...
Oyster World You massacred those oysters when we were girls, wrenched them from the river mud despite my pleas that...
Why do certain days lie dormant in our memories, ready to arise so vividly that we live them again, no...
“The Birth” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton. Learn more about...
My mother bought clothes to make herself feel good. She imagined herself being invited to a dinner party at a house...
The Last Farm Stand She comes laden across the bay, and I am halfway down the hill to the ferry...
“Milking Cows and Throwing Curves” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton....
The way I met Calhoun, I was sitting in the bar, the only bar we have in town. At the...
I used to tell myself that it was the August heat that drew me away from that tarmacadam road and into the...
“Bucolia” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton. Learn more about the...
Darkroom The past would seem to exist beneath a red light behind a door seldom opened save to revisit photographs...
One Joe Dell, sitting on a basswood stump, looked at the dirty handkerchief, now bloody, that he had wrapped just...