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Christopher Alexander Hayter is a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing at Georgia State University. He received an MFA from at San Francisco State University. He was the winner of the 43rd Annual Agnes Scott College Writing Festival Fiction Contest in 2014. His writing has been published in Talking River, Jelly Bucket, The Binnacle, Transfer, and Underground Voices. He is currently editing his first novel and drafting his second.

Macro-Fiction

Dig

Issue No. 227 ~ April, 2016

This faint noise I can’t place sounds in the back yard. Chy-shyun, goes the sound. When I go out I find my son digging a hole. The sun shines down on him, his torso bare and shining with sweat. Sand caked with perspiration into mud …