Declaration by Madeline Anthes My husband is gone. The other women cry for their missing men. I see them in town, their babies swaddled against their chests. Their eyes are red and swollen. They are the picture of grief. Loneliness.…
BackStory: Five Questions with Gary Duncan
BackStory: Five Questions with Gary Duncan Author of Thrice Around the Walls of Troy What inspired you to write “Thrice Around the Walls of Troy”? I’ve been fascinated by The Iliad since I read it in high school and later at…
Thrice Around the Walls of Troy
Thrice Around the Walls of Troy by Gary Duncan Round and round, thinking: All this, for her? Remembering the stories he’d heard about her: the face, the ships, all that. That first time he saw her, his idiot brother…
BackStory: Five Questions with Fiona J. Mackintosh
BackStory: Five Questions with Fiona J. Mackintosh Author of Postbellum What inspired you to write this piece? That’s a long story. I have spent many years researching the lives of an Anglo-Tahitian royal family in the 19th and early 20th…
Postbellum
Postbellum by Fiona J. Mackintosh January 25, 1867 Somewhere outside Jacksonville, Illinois, the train slows to a crawl. Clara cups her hands and peers into the darkness but sees only the rail bed stones and the ragged edge of a…
BackStory: Four Questions with Becca Borawski Jenkins
BackStory: Four Questions with Becca Borawski Jenkins Author of You May Hear of a Killing Who are your favourite historical fiction writers (flash or otherwise)? I tend to read mainly non-fiction history, but I love when it is shared in…
You May Hear of a Killing
You May Hear of a Killing by Becca Borawski Jenkins The heat made her an inch shorter as she watched the dust devil tread toward her down the only road in this not-even-a town. Her hands rested at her hips.…
BackStory: Five Questions with Jude Higgins
BackStory: Five Questions with Jude Higgins Author of Send Him Victorious What inspired you to write this piece? It was inspired by a black and white 1930s photograph of two children playing at the shore while a boat came in.…
Send Him Victorious
Send Him Victorious by Jude Higgins I last saw my big brother Charlie laugh in 1937, the day after George VI’s coronation. He nearly wet himself when I asked him about a word in the National Anthem. Why were we…