Sixty years into Shenandoah’s august literary life, the literary journal has just launched its first online issue.
My short story “To Will One Thing” is one of the fiction selections. Please read it and tell me your thoughts.
The online version also features:
- Local artwork by William Dunlap (full gallery of artwork)
- R.T. Smith writes an elegaic editor’s note about the supposedly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, implying that literary journals aren’t dead yet. He also explains the new online features.
- Tracy Richardson interviews Rebecca Makkai, famous for her four-year-streak of placing fiction in the Best American Short Stories series.
Other fiction selections include a short-short by Alyson Hagy, who’s been praised on BookFox for her collection “Ghosts of Wyoming,” and whose prose here displays the same fantastical flights:
“Where do they find these animals? The halt and the lame, the half-blind, the parboiled, the skeptical showered in the alkaloid mud of a corral hammered slant behind T. Murphy’s Snowmobile Shop.”
Also, Devin Murphy writes about children witnessing a gruesome dead horse in “On the Mountain” and Katherine Conner’s “Neshoba” deals with truth-fudging memoirs, corporeality, and missing family members.
