Category: Short Stories
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Short Story in The Rappahannock Review
“The Old Women and Miss Fitt” appears in The Rappahannock Review.” My short story “The Old Women and Miss Fitt” appears in Issue 11:1 of The Rappahannock Review. The story begins: This story I’m writing began almost three years ago, late summer, Rose’s back porch, we four writers overlooking her apple orchard, the sky that…
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The Shenandoah Prize for Fiction
A surprise: my story “Nature Rules” that appeared in Shenandoah in fall, 2017 received an honorable mention for The Shenandoah Prize for Fiction. Many awards have lots of categories, winner, finalist, semi-finalist, honorable mention, and sometimes more categories, so I don’t usually find that receiving an honorable mention is worth mentioning. But the Shenandoah Prize includes one winner…
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“Nature Rules” appears in SHENANDOAH
… Sandro? Sandro, thickset and old? She’d never imagined him aging. She ducked back—he couldn’t have seen her—and reached for her shotgun… I am thrilled that my story “Nature Rules” appears in the fall 2017 issue of Shenandoah, a prestigious literary journal that began publishing in 1949.
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Shoes: A story
ALVINA LEDBEITER needed a new pair of shoes. Not that anyone would see them on her she still had a few occasions where she wanted to look sharp before she laid her head on as, for all Eternity. Duke Crocker’s ninety-third for starters where she intended to outshine that widow- ladies who believed he had…