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I remember my father going to the chicken pen to select the birds that were going to die. Sometimes Dad did his chicken-snatching in broad daylight, netting fleeing birds or making a swift grab for their legs. An easier way was to visit the coop after dark, a chicken angel of death choosing the doomed from their roosts as they blinked at the beam of the flashlight crashing in...
Judge Jamie Guiney has selected “The Escapee’s Lover” by Dennis McFadden as the Best Short Story for the 2025 Best in Rural Writing Contest.
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Judge Jamie Guiney has selected “God, Guns, and Baseball” by Lena (Sunada-Matsumura) Newlin as the Best Essay for the 2025 Best in Rural Writing Contest...
The Old Hotel at the End of Night
I haven’t the least idea where it was,
possibly somewhere in southern Missouri
or it may have been out in Oklahoma
or further on down the line in east Texas,
that my Buick finally gave up the ghost—
I couldn’t be sure, I’d been driving so long,
driving for half of my l...
My father had been in and out of the hospital for fifteen years. He survived three heart attacks, cancer, multiple hernias and a knee replacement. His knee replacement at seventy-five was unsuccessful. He said he signed up for the operation, not never-ending physiotherapy, and he was too damn busy to waste his time doing fancy-boy exercises with some idiot who didn’t get into...
