Category: The Last Coffle

NOTE: Draft 1 of this chapter has been posted here.

This is a long chapter. It will probably have to be divided in future drafts. This chapter brings Marlow (the protagonist in this storyline) to his turning point by using his past…

I am interested in working with critique partners in the literary fiction genre. My speculative fiction overlaps with magical realism and epic fantasy. But since literary fiction has some depth to it…

Here is Chapter 101. Sherman’s name has been changed to Willard Marlow — an obvious reference to both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. Captain Devall’s name has also been changed. It…

5 – EMANCIPATION An old barn on the far side of the abandoned village served as shelter for nineteen exhausted children, three horses, and four adult protectors. LT fed the children pieces…