If you’ve been looking for rural short stories to read online, start with three pieces from the Rural Fiction Magazine archive. Each offers a different way into a story. Read one over coffee or save all three for an evening.
Three places to start
- “Wild Oats of Home” by Terril L. Shorb. Start with the title. After you finish, see what the word home has come to mean for you.
- “Sunny’s Tablecloth” by Cathy Adams. Read with an eye for ordinary objects. Which object would you choose if you had to remember the story by a single image?
- “Herm’s Rifle” by C.E. Williamson. Pay attention to what the characters take for granted. See how much you learn about their world from things they feel no need to explain.
After you read, go back to the opening paragraph of your favorite. A detail that seemed incidental the first time may tell you how closely the writer was listening to the place all along.
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