His boots lay down a path through the Timothy and Queen Anne’s lace. This tall, tall boy, with his long boy-legs, muscular basketball player’s legs, strides through the meadow as warblers alight on stalks of ironweed,...
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Jolene McIlwain
Jolene McIlwain’s recent work appears online or is forthcoming at Cincinnati Review, New Orleans Review, West Branch, Litro, Janus Literary, Prime Number, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and elsewhere. She’s had stories nominated for Pushcarts and Best of the Net, and her flash was selected for the 2019 Best Small Fictions Anthology as well as a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction award and semifinalist for American Short Fiction’s Short(er) Fiction contest. She lives with her husband, son, and elder-dog, Hank, in the Appalachian plateau of western Pennsylvania.