One morning after I’d gotten to my tree branch, Flaaten pulled out through the neck of his black Grand Funk Railroad t-shirt a hamburger bun bag containing a bowel movement suspended in urine. He’d tied off the bag with an electric guitar string and carried it snugly...
Introducing Steve Eoannou, one of SFWP’s 2013 Fiction Finalists! His collection, Muscle Cars, will be published by SFWP in 2015. Sheila Lamb: Your short story collection, Muscle Cars, was a finalist for the 2013 Literary Awards Program. What made you decide to...
It was cold the morning of my father’s surgery. Wind from Canada swirled across the lake and loosened the last grip of fall. Every brittle leaf that scraped across the pavement reminded me that snow would soon blanket the roofs, the gutters, and the limbs of skeletal...
We never left them dangling there for long, swaying back and forth between the fenceposts, little Jenny’s skipping rope suspending them above the ground in scuffed pink neckties. Sometimes Jenny would spy on us then come running over with glossy red eyes, flailing her...
I chatted with 2010 Literary Award Program Winner Tara Laskowski, who shared her insights on the contest, flash fiction, and novels. Sheila Lamb: Your chapbook, Black Diamond City, won the 2010 Literary Awards Program. How did you discover the SFWP’s Literary...
