B.A. Durham
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Literary Fiction | Midwestern Gothic | Science Fiction
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Stories (3/0)
- Top Story - November 2023
- Top Story - July 2023
The Cat With the Abalone EyeTop Story - July 2023
A hole had swallowed all of Lake Walter that summer. Lydia told me it went all the way down to the bedrock. She said she had heard that from her teacher, though it was more likely the fourth-grade illiterati. Mom said it drained into an underground river that flowed through a network of caves, but she drank nightly, and her facts seemed less believable after dinner. Still, the implications of what she said could swallow me in a spiral of morbid thoughts: swimmers struggling to exhaustion, small animals drowning in their hovels, Indian artifacts swept into unreachable crevices or expelled from the hillside, forever lost amongst the scree. To an eight-year-old whose toys were a pocket knife and a collection of spark plugs, that hole had more teeth than any folk creature in the county.
By B.A. Durham10 months ago in Fiction
- Runner-Up in Microfiction Magic Challenge
HavenRunner-Up in Microfiction Magic Challenge
Seven days old. His achromatic eyes could barely see. We were, to each other, soft, living shapes. I’d known my daughter better. I often lay by her crib, holding her hand when she cried. Her cot death was silent; our hands were still touching in the morning.
By B.A. Durhamabout a year ago in Fiction