Delta Shorts – Flash Fiction from the Delta

Short fiction drawn from the people and places of the Delta

Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Three

By WILLIAM PRENTISSClarksdale, Mississippi Rough day. I feel no physical pain, but I still deal with and feel mental anguish. This angst is usually a result of painful memories or...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – Day Two

By WILLIAM PRENTISS Clarksdale, Mississippi I don’t always understand or agree with what Sis reads to me from Leo Tolstoy’s A Calendar of Wisdom, but it sure does make me think. Thinking is...
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Mornings with Tolstoy – The Beginning

By WILLIAM PRENTISSClarksdale, Mississippi He is God. Why didn’t He protect me? I blamed Him. It wasn’t His fault. Life ain’t fair. That’s that. No more pleas for them to...
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Gator Bait: A True Story

By The Poorest of Williams (CLARKSDALE, Mississippi) Folks outside Coahoma County been rather churlish of late, arguing all about alligators caught in the 700-plus-a-few-pounds category. Well, that ain’ nuthin’! Me...
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Coahoma County Chupacabra: A True Story by the Poorest of Williams

By POOR WILLIAM(CLARKSDALE, Mississippi) I swear I saw him. Last night. Skittering under the hedge. Head big as a fire hydrant, body smooth as a Chihuahua. He had been suckin’...
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Bubba

By William PrentissWARNING: See end of post! Bubba! What a name! It didn’t bother him one iota that the name “Bubba” was often associated with uneducated, white Southern males. He...
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Donny, Connie, and the General

By WILLIAM PRENTISSWARNING: See end of post! Donny, his real name, was a debutante and gay as the day was long. He didn’t come from money, but he sure as...
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Rickles: The Greendale Arsonist

DELTA SHORTS:   Rickles: The Greendale Arsonist By WILLIAM PRENTISS   [caption id="attachment_2287" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Fire Department responding to another arsonist fire on West 2nd in Clarksdale, Mississippi around 2:30...
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David “Straight” and Adelaide

DELTA SHORTS:   David "Straight" and Adelaide By WILLIAM PRENTISS WARNING: See end of post!

Photo by The Delta Bohemian

David was always a good boy...
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Blue: King of the Walking People

DELTA SHORTS:   Blue: King of the Walking People By WILLIAM PRENTISS WARNING: See end of post! Blue didn’t give a damn what folks thought. He had carved out a...
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Eddie: The Right Pope of Bongwater

DELTA SHORTS   Eddie: The Right Pope of Bongwater By WILLIAM PRENTISS WARNING: This story, though ultimately shrouded in redemption, does portray some characters in their basest state, including coarse...
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Genevieve

DELTA SHORTS   Genevieve By WILLIAM PRENTISS WARNING: This story, though ultimately shrouded in redemption, does portray some characters in their basest state, including coarse language, non-gratuitous graphic sexuality, and...
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