Delta Shorts – Flash Fiction from the Delta

Short fiction drawn from the people and places of the Delta

Delta Delusions: Reflections at Cutrer: A Ghost from the Past

By POOR WILLIAMCLARKSDALE, Mississippi NOTE: The following fictional story was the winner in the 2008 Delta Writer's Association's Tennessee Williams Festival Writing Contest. It was published in the Clarksdale Press...
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Delta Dreaming on a Winter’s Day

By POOR WILLIAMNOTE: Thanks to Brooks Ann Gaston and Delilah Hollis, both who responded to Poor William’s posted-on-Facebook request for subject matter for this week’s Delta Shorts flash fiction story....
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Delta Delusions: The Stabbin’ Cabin

By WILLIAM PRENTISSThe name, Stabbin’ Cabin’, was supposed to be a Delta joke. Hell, nobody was supposed to get hurt. The early spring evening was pleasant, but there was a...
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Delta Delusions: Black on Black

Delta Delusions: Black on Black By William Prentiss Can sounds kaleidoscope? I remember as a child looking into the viewfinder and seeing multi-colored striations, small geometric...
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