Everything was moving at a normal pace until he showed up. Eleventh graders listened to their teacher’s unremitting spiel on a work of literature. Miss Sheila Singleton, a first year English teacher, reeked of green skill and floral perfume, and when he arrived, she eagerly dragged out a literature book from a rusty filing cabinet, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Three months after they were married Johnny Ray Mook's wife welded her thighs together and would not relinquish what lay between them no matter what Johnny said or did. He tried everything he could think of. He told her he loved her. He told her she was the most beautiful woman who had ever been born […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here's one to look out for: OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS, APPALACHIAN STORIES By Meredith Sue Willis; Ohio University Press, $24.95 paperback Willis is a native of north central West Virginia; her hometown is in Appalachia. She is fascinated by the region and the image it has in the collective consciousness of the country. The stereotypes that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that I get few submissions from women, as I have met few enough women who write the kind of literature I'm looking for here. But, I know they're out there, and it strikes me that I have not tried hard enough to find them. Relying on Facebook and the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE PITS They broke the apartment window and cleaned us out while we were at work. I feel violated but the worst part about it is all my bullshit about being on the edge of society seems pretty pale next to these criminals stealing to survive and surviving well putting me in my place smack dab in the middle of the herd. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After work, Clint and Danny rolled through the orange streetlights on Main Street and into the darkness on the far side of town. Danny thought about telling Clint to turn around and take him home, where his father would be asleep in front of the TV and his mother asleep in bed. Instead, he watched […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Outside a dilapidated outhouse a man by the name of Goodman waited impatiently for his turn. He stood on his right toe with his left boot heel, trying to not think about the deep burn that was welling up from his loins. His forehead burst into a frothy sweat. He knocked on the door’s driftwood […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 0
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 1
