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ON THE DELIVERANCE OF WOOD DUCKS • by Christopher R. Muscato

March 13, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The Mississippi had flooded its banks. This was, of course, an entirely natural thing for the Mississippi to do. Flooding was the river’s great yawn, a stretching of its arms and twisting of kinks from its spine with a slow,… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Christopher R. Muscato, ducks, Mississippi River, rivers, solarpunk

THE LAST LITTLE LUCKIAMUTE RIVER MERMAID • by Jonathan Ellingson

April 27, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Our brief interview involved more cannibalism than I would have guessed. At the river with my kids, on the last day of summer, and my son is picking up rocks along the shore finding snakes and wolf spiders hauling egg… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Jonathan Ellingson, merpeople, parenting, rivers
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