Ringlets, fiction by Jim Parks

Rosalie’s hair is glossy and black, as glossy and black as a raven’s wing. It hangs down over her sun-bronzed shoulders and back in ringlets she makes with a curling iron.

She reaches up and back to grasp a sheaf of these ringlets and there is the brisk metallic sound of a spring-loaded hair [...]

2009 Million Writers Nominations

Good luck, chicken scratchers.

Story 1: “Bent Country” by Sheldon Lee Compton http://friedchickenandcoffee.com/2009/06/30/bent-country-by-sheldon-lee-compton/

Story 2: “Justice Boys” by Sheryl Monks http://friedchickenandcoffee.com/2009/07/24/justice-boys-by-sheryl-monks/

Story 3: “Blind Lemon” by Jim Parks http://friedchickenandcoffee.com/2009/06/04/blind-lemon-by-jim-parks/