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grit lit
Fiction
FICTION: “There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood” by John Dufresne
Peregrine Fontana awoke belly up in the canebrake. His wrists tied behind his back and bound to his ankles with what felt like wire...
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Fiction: Burn
by Susan Isaak Lolis
The splintered porch steps were mired in mud. He walked outside, around the small shotgun house and looked through the window....
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Fiction: Hard Times for a Haggard Heart
by Gary Carter
Ernie lately had taken to studying intently on whether life was just something you endured on a minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, week-to-week, year-to-year journey...
Fiction
Green Shelves
Peter Stravlo
Peter Stravlo
I was thrilled when my stepdad finally returned. This time determined to make everything right. I sensed it in the taut cleft...
Fiction
Dig Two Graves
Albert Leftwich
May 2007I arrive at the cemetery cradling three bouquets of flowers and a miniature American flag. Hidden among them is a small sledgehammer.In...
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Entanglement
John Dufresne
There are two trillion galaxies and one hundred billion trillion stars in the observable universe. There are four hundred billion stars and 3.2...