As Is

Fiction

by JJ Clark-Finalist Spur Award

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Her grandfather told her once that Asa Bordona had worked for a turkey farm out at Chinese Camp as a semen sucker.  He had explained that the sucker was the boy who used a straw to draw the semen out of the male turkey to put in the female... Read more

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That's Deep

Nonfiction

by Ellen Waterston

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People who have always lived with an ear close to the land, an eye trained on distant horizons, hear and see things differently. Take Jack. Seventy if he’s a day. He ranches outside Mitchell, Oregon, population 200. Has been on the same ranch all his life. Although Mitchell’s Pink Spur... Read more

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An Interview with Mary Sojourner

Interview

by Charles Finn

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On an unseasonably warm day in March, I sat down with Mary Sojourner, author of the novel, Going Through Ghosts, and the soon to be released, She Bets Her Life, a memoir and guide for women gambling addicts. We sat outside in her yard, myself in a wire chair... Read more

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School Bus

Nonfiction

by Rebecca Miles

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Although I have been out of school for 20 years, I still associate the idea of school with the smell of diesel exhaust.  This may seem a strange association for some, but for me, I spent nearly as much of my high school years on a diesel belching bus... Read more

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The Tub Club

Nonfiction

by Katie Lee

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Forlorn and shabby, it almost escaped my notice where it leaned against the back fence of an antique dealer’s yard half hidden by a wooden-wheeled cart.  Within the hoops, grey, weathered staves cast light and shadow through large gaps.  The top hoop had fallen to a rakish slant and... Read more

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Interview with Katie Lee

Interview

by Kyle Boogs

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Boggs: What if they never built the dam, never flooded the Glen Canyon? Do you think it would remain the beautiful, mysterious, love affair you write about? Lee: If the Glen were like it was then today, it would be trampled to death. I’m afraid it would. Unless according to... Read more

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The Castaway

Nonfiction

by Simmons B. Buntin

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At the edge of Tucson’s La Hoya barrio rests the nation’s only shrine dedicated to a sinner.  Many tales are told about the origin of the shallow portico framed by a high adobe wall, arched like an old Mexican fort.  The most popular stories date to the early 1870s,... Read more

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