Sowers in the Dust
– a dystopian short story
I wrote about a rather obscure short film called Wavelength and the way it parallels our own longing. Read the whole piece over at Mockingbird.
A boy is silhouetted against open space – maybe an infinity of possibility, an endless horizon – and his eyes are ahead. His knees are tucked under his chin. He is ready. He is mid-air, suspended between land (where it is safe) and the water (which could be unsafe).
Ingredients: 1 piece of apple pie (the kind with the apples still crisp and coated in only cinnamon, with the kind of crust that you imagine when you imagine baking a whole pie crust to eat by itself and by yourself. I prefer pie a day old, when the flavors have become friends and the warmth left is a result of the pie and not the other way around)
my short fiction story “Rejoice” was published by Owl Canyon Press in their 2019 anthology “When the Ride Ends”
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