Winter 2014 | Issue 6

Selected Fiction


Plain Burial
Matthew Fogarty

“The light at the bottom of the exit ramp was red and there was something that hit me then: that it was where, if we’d been on a long trip, Bentley would first realize we were almost home and he’d stand up and press his face against my ear, like he was driving too, and he’d do it all the way to my parents’ house.”

Plain Burial - Fogarty

      Born and raised in the square-mile suburbs of Detroit, Matthew Fogarty currently lives and writes in Columbia, where he is fiction editor of Yemassee. He also edits Cartagena, a literary journal. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Passages North, PANK, 14 Hills, Smokelong Quarterly, and Midwestern Gothic.

Baby
Heather LeFebvre

“He lets out little hiccups of joy. There, there, she says. An illustration of a woman rocking her child to sleep, a book her mother once gave her, pops into her mind. She smooths the hair curling behind the baby’s ear. As long as I’m living, she whispers, my baby you’ll be.”

Baby - LeFebvre

      Heather Lefebvre is an MFA candidate at Texas State University. She is the founder/editor of the online journal Broad! and the nonfiction editor at Front Porch. Her nonfiction and journalism has been printed in various publications, but this is her first published story. 

Dependable
Austin Tremblay

“It sounded like every car that spun its wheels on TV, and an old-timey train, and his dad’s Dodge pickup. In his head, it revved until it was a voice, a preacher’s holler, deep and frightening and doubled-up, two voices in one. The whole of the bike smelled like gasoline and burnt toast. He felt a sweetness in handling the machinery, the delicate, rich hatred of controlling something.”

motorcycle

      Austin Tremblay was born and raised in North Carolina. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston. Before graduate school, he worked as an actor and playwright. Austin’s writing has been featured in Gulf Coast, Smartish Pace, cream city review, Bateau, and other journals. He edits the literary journal Owl Eye Review.