New short story published in Post Road, "In the High Prairies"

Thank you to David Ryan and the other editors, interns, and staff of Post Road for publishing my short story "In the High Prairies" in their brand-new Issue 37. The full issue is available online, and it will also be released as a print issue in early 2021.

​I started writing this story five years ago in Nelly Reifler's fiction writing class, based on an exercise brainstorming lists of nouns and verbs, drawing lines to connect them randomly, and then writing sentences based on the combinations. "Railroad tracks" + "ripen" was where this story began, which led me to look up how often animals are hit by trains. This newspaper article about hundreds of antelope struck by a train in Montana inspired the setting.

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