Monica Whitaker: How I Saved the Chicken That Crossed the Road in Nashville, TN

By Monica Whitaker
The chicken in my bathtub ate instant Quaker oats. She picked at them warily. Perhaps she thought I’d rescued her from the busy intersection after her tumble from the poultry truck only to add her to a pot of carrots and potatoes. Each time I entered, she glanced reproachfully from her porcelain roost, [...]

Thorpe Moeckel : Windfall

By Thorpe Moeckel
We gathered on Thursday afternoon. We gathered blowdowns, plucked them from the ground. No experts on apples, we were surprised by how round the Staymans were. And their color, like leaves of dogwood trees growing on a west slope two weeks after first frost, inspired a haunted kind of thirst.
It was a windy [...]