Delta Shorts – Flash Fiction from the Delta
Short fiction drawn from the people and places of the Delta
Alligators and Off Switches
DELTA SHORTS Alligators and Off Switches By WILLIAM PRENTISS Vance Sullivan from Friars Point near Clarksdale, MS - the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Photo by The Delta...
Juke Joint Love
By WILLIAM PRENTISS It had been over a year to no avail. Simone and Darryl never met, even then. She had been on stage and he had been hungrily eyeing...
Delta Delusions: Faces
By WILLIAM PRENTISS CLARKSDALE, Mississippi Photo by The Delta Bohemian I see faces everywhere and in everything, always have, but I had never seen them in second story windows–not until recently....
Delta Delusions: Captive
DELTA SHORTS Delta Delusions: Captive Photo by The Delta Bohemian Why are they holding me captive? What the hell did I do to deserve this treatment? I am alone;...
Delta Delusions: Hooked
DELTA SHORTS Delta Delusions: Hooked By WILLIAM PRENTISS Photo by The Delta Bohemian I had never taken drugs in my life; well, I had smelled marijuana once in high...
Delta Delusions: Ain’t No Bugs On Me
DELTA SHORTS: DELTA DELUSIONS Ain’t No Bugs On Me By WILLIAM PRENTISS Howell children under Bill and Francine Luckett's Boll Weevil. Photo by DB My grandmother ruined me. I...
Delta Delusions: Reflections at Cutrer: A Ghost from the Past
The Cutrer Mansion in Clarksdale, Mississippi. By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi NOTE: The following fictional story was the winner in the 2008 Delta Writer’s Association’s Tennessee Williams Festival Writing Contest....
Delta Dreaming on a Winter’s Day
Snow in the Mississippi Delta – February 2011. Photo by DB By POOR WILLIAM NOTE: Thanks to Brooks Ann Gaston and Delilah Hollis, both who responded to Poor William’s posted-on-Facebook...
Delta Delusions: The Stabbin’ Cabin
Photo by The Delta Bohemian By WILLIAM PRENTISS The name, Stabbin’ Cabin’, was supposed to be a Delta joke. Hell, nobody was supposed to get hurt. The early spring evening...
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