by Laura C. Alonso Third time that day, he was on me. On me like bees to a flower (or flies on shit, he’d correct me, no doubt). Sucking sweet nectar and breathing that breath — damn that breath –’round my head, in my ear, pestering, bugging,...
Year 2000 Honorable Mention Billy Moore’s novel is about a boy’s eleventh summer, set during the 1956 polio epidemic. Sent into isolation at his grandparents’ small farm in Alabama, we follow his adventures in rural America ‘ a world that has...
by Adam Browne Aurealis Award winner Adam Browne was a runner-up in the SFWP year 2000 literary awards program. His work has appeared in HQ, Aurealis and Orb. In 1999 and 2000, he was on the Aurealis Award shortlist. In 2002, the Aurealis went to “The...
by rawlins mckinney This story was born as an assignment for the late Fred Bonnie’s fiction workshop at UAB over 20 years ago. Fred was a master of the short story and the most effective teacher of the craft of fiction writing that I have ever known. Fred loved...
by paula morris 2001 SFWP Finalist Paula Morris was born in Auckland, New Zealand and now lives in Iowa. She is a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. It’s our pleasure to present an excerpt from “Queen of Beauty.” The novel...
