“Treenealogy”

“Arrival”

“When My Friend Tells Me He and His Wife Watch All Creatures Great and Small Together I’m More Than A Little Jealous”

“Snatched by Fire”

“Splinters that Linger”

Short story by Ray Morrison

“The storm’s moved through quickly, thank goodness,” Mama said. “The plants sure needed it, but, Lordy, did it have to come all in one rush?”

“Enough”

Short story by Rebecca Henry Lowndes

And Clahk, who’d been distractedly riffling the change in his pockets, fell still. He gazed at the child, his eyes stark and luminous behind the glasses. Across acres of time, aeons of distance, his voice came to her, impaled on the words, “This one was Roy’s.”

Short story by Brandy Bell Carter

“If you are out in the woods and fields, keep your eyes open for ‘em. These arrowheads are good to have. It’s like ownin’ part of the past,” Waverly’s daddy told him.

Short story by Robert Wallace

He seemed detached in some way, as if the view from the lighthouse had given space to the silence that separates people.

Art by David Nies