RIVER FICTIONS

Short Stories from the upper Mississippi

Seth Eastman: Indians Traveling

INDIAN PICTURES

HEArt Online: Human Equity Through Art August 15, 2013

Inspired by Seth Eastman’s paintings, his Dakota wife Stands Sacred and Doctor Charles Eastman at Wounded Knee.

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RIVER SUN WARBLERS: A MYTH

Pushcart Nomination: American Athenaeum, Front Porch Edition Spring 2013


The animals and birds danced inside the core of the Earth, scorching their feet on hot crusty rock, thirsting, chanting in the dark. They rested, and Thrasher heard the sea seep from the rim way above. He sang the song of two tiny warblers, those we call the prothonotaries today…

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The One Above the Bottoms

Pushcart Nomination, Prick of the Spindle Magazine, Vol. 7.1, March 2013


The river this late afternoon seemed to prove Nathan right, and the pilots, log rafters and keelboat men wrong. Mid-April already, and the channel looked smooth from up at the cabin, glistening a muddy milk-brown, silvery-blue, sunny, rosy-toned…

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