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Follow the Language: An Interview with John Fulton
I think I found John Fulton’s short story collections somewhere in my early writing days; after reading stories by Carver,…
Into the White
The wolves are out again. I can hear them, their hollow wails in the pines, slicing through a storm of…
Galgalim
It is not an air raid. Above the city’s steepled church-tops the two planes break from the clouds. Sunlit rain…
Background
I didn’t have any theater experience, but when I saw the ad for background actors for a local play, I…
When We’re Empty Of What We Are Designed To Hold
One Sunday morning, I wake up to discover that both of my daughters have turned into birds. The younger—a tow-headed…
Adrift
It was the year the flood washed a parade of homes downriver. They called it a rain bomb. Kate’s home…
Two Cops Come to the Door
Yes, I saw something. I was making my regular Friday night sauce-and-cheese sandwich. It’s like pizza on an Italian bread.…
Two Phenomena of Roughly Equal Importance
“The air on Mars—what there is of it—is leaking away,” he said. “About half a pound a second sputtering into…
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