Sunday, September 13, 2026

September-October 2024 Issue

Chef Remy

Intro by John Dufresne Remy Powell is a ten-year-old kitchen prodigy. She has been cooking and putting her own spin on recipes since she was...

Bodock, 1816–1834

Robert Busby Exa Claygardner hunched over the dutch oven behind their cabin and pled for the men harvesting corn in the hollow to dissolve from...

A Friend for the Ferryman

Maureen M. Welch Rivulets of sweat poured down the preacher’s neck as he strode to the barn for his rifle, the boy calling after, “Preacher,...

Red Eagle’s Grave

Kim Bradley At midnight, when a commotion started in the hallway of The Pines Rest Home, Dell Finklea had been contemplating of all things, Red...

Maura

Peter Mladinic Living with me is like living with no one.Living with me is like living with a tubeof Brylcreem on a medicine cabinet shelf.Living...

DEALVILLE: The Big House on Burleson Street

Diana Finlay HendricksAll photos by Carl Deal Home is where your story begins. . .Step inside the Big House on Burleson Street and you’ll find...

Two Great Comfort Food Recipes from Soulful Vegan Ellen Kanner

Ellen Kanner is the author of the award-winning book, Feeding the Hungry Ghost, contributor to outlets including HuffPost, Eater, VegNews, and Edible South Florida,...

Book Review: State of Paradise, by Laura Van Den Berg

Laura Van Den Berg’s sixth book, her third novel, is a dazzling, enigmatic venture through a surreal, interlocking narrative evoking the bizarrely heightened nature...

Book Review: Nopalito, Texas by David Meischen

Nopalito, Texas by David Meischen, a short story collection, immediately captures any reader who loves short stories. The twelve stories are each titled with...

Backlist Treasures – September/October 2024

DUANE’S DEPRESSEDLarry McMurtryAlfred A. Knopf, 2009375 pagesAlthough Lonesome Dove, published in 1985, won McMurtry a Pulitzer Prize, he said in an interview years later...