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People and Places, Part Two

Connie

There’s not much distance between the church and the farm. Just follow winding Kregar Road past some houses and garbage bags dropped, here and there, by strangers. Reminders of the outside world leading the way home from worship. Her mother left for a time when she was young, but didn’t come back full. Half the [...]

SPF Pittsburgh

Visit County Line Press July 18th and 19th at SPF Pittsburgh, which is being held at the Regina Miller Gallery on the Carnegie Mellon Campus! We’ll have plenty of rural goodies and, of course, mint poetry!

People and Places, Part One

Wade
The only thing longer than his rap sheet was his beard. Full and unruly. Peanut shells and ambitions nestled there, forgotten amid acne scars, DUIs, hits from a joint. Years ago he asked me, at a point in a day when the sun settled below the tree-line and the world seemed like one sweet stain, [...]