Thomas E. Kennedy: A True Gentleman and Scribe

by Christopher Klim

Originally published on February 21, 2007

“First, I needed to understand Tom Kennedy as ‘one of the greatest living short story writers.’ This is the way I now describe him to other writers – the scribes who forever hold the short form in esteem…”

Twenty Digressions Toward the Californication of History

by Lance Olsen

Originally published on June 13, 2006

Back in Nam, I was one of those guys they called the Tunnel Rats – the ones
small and thin enough to shinny down the camouflaged holes in the Cu Chi
jungle and crawl on their bellies through the marshy-hot burrows twisting
in near faultless darkness in a seventy-five-mile-long maze, rattle and
pop of automatic fire above them, millipedes skittering over their arms.

Grave Stories

by Kathye Fetsko Petrie

Originally published on July 1, 2002

I don’t think Eudora Welty would have minded my request. After all, her last book was a collection of photographs of rural Mississippi cemeteries.