BackStory: Five Questions with Audra Kerr Brown Author of cottonmouth What inspired you to write ‘cottonmouth’? I took one of Meg Pokrass’s wonderfully fun photo-prompt workshops, and she presented a photo of a Depression era girl holding a baby. I…
cottonmouth
cottonmouth by Audra Kerr Brown ma dont sit with the baby no more not since pa caught her starin barebreasted at the lantern light found his boy beneath the feather tick pale and limp as a stillborn pig pa he…
Back Story: Five Questions with Dreena Collins
Back Story: Five Questions with Dreena Collins Author of The (almost entirely true) Story of Jessie and the Mountain What inspired you to write this story? I came across this extraordinary story via social media, when a friend of mine,…
The (almost entirely true) Story of Jessie and the Mountain
The (almost entirely true) Story of Jessie and the Mountain by Dreena Collins Jessie would not go. They told her that she had to move. The mountain, y mynydd, was sliding ever closer: inching and scuttling shingle and stone, until one…
BackStory: Seven Questions with Sarah Freligh
BackStory: Five Questions with Sarah Freligh Author of November What inspired you to write ‘November’? I happened on a website of photographs from the ‘60s, including several of adolescents learning the fox trot. Were there any interesting facts, details, or…
November
November by Sarah Freligh Month of mold and radiators, month when girls are marched single file into the sneaker stink of the boys’ gym where we’re sized up and partnered off, even the holy roller girls who dance with each…
BackStory: Five Questions with Marie Gethins
BackStory: Five Questions with Marie Gethins Author of Beating the Herring What inspired you to write ‘Beating the Herring’? I often pop into the Crawford Art Gallery when in town and spend a half hour of quiet bliss wandering through…
Beating the Herring
Beating the Herring by Marie Gethins Cross to shoulder, you bear the burden, sleeves covered in white fragments. A single herring remains. It trembles, glinting silver, then gold in the Easter Morning light. The river beckons. Earlier, a row of…
BackStory: Seven Questions with Tara Isabel Zambrano
BackStory: Seven Questions with Tara Isabel Zambrano Author of In The Arms of Khajuraho, 970 CE What inspired you to write ‘The Arms of Khajuraho, 970 CE’? I have always had a strong desire to write historical fiction pieces especially…
In The Arms of Khajuraho, 970 CE
In The Arms of Khajuraho, 970 CE by Tara Isabel Zambrano I am all stone, the monolith giving way to a slight slope below my navel. For a moment it seems as if a dark river has appeared between my…