September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Stalled Symphony by Liesl Wilke September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest The women in the Hearthstone Mall bathroom are not unlike horses at the gate, competing in a race they don’t understand, didn’t sign up for, won’t admit exists.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Credo by Bridget Brewer September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest The former Father Peter acts the same as always, from what we can see.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Promises, Promises by Susan Finch September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest I unzip the front of my flight suit, peeling back the sweaty polyester, but I stop halfway.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Motherlove by Mark Farrington September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Grown now and alone, Manion remembers his past as severed bits of planets revolving around his mother, the sun.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest I cut my hair when my husband, Eamon, died.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest The Mattress Boy of Cameroon by Kate Jackson September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Do you hear him? They call him the Mattress Boy of Cameroon.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest Oregon Grind by Rick Attig September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest In the thin shade of the ragged stand of poplars, Foster raised a fist of bloody gauze into the air.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest The English Speakers by Sarah Quigley September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest They are English speakers, he and she. They speak English very well: very well indeed.
September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest What Happy Couples Do by Anna Cox September 15, 2011 Carve Magazine Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest I told my husband to move out, and then I went to the grocery to buy more limes.