Tiegen Kosiak’s piece “Ella and the Elephant” from the online journal Hot Metal Bridge is well written and sad. The title may very well also be a reference to Hemingway’s story “Hills like White Elephants” although elephants are also mentioned in the story itself. It is set during Lent and covers a week’s worth of time from Saturday to Friday.
I can see how the story fits the journal’s submission guidelines: “We want literary fiction that is so well written, it has a magnetic pull. Stories that make us want to google you and read everything you’ve published. That get us fired up and make us want to write or read or create.” This piece did, in fact, make me want to google the author.
From googling the author, I learned that she has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Minnesota State University Moorhead. I also learned that the author writes poetry, which doesn’t surprise me since the language in this story was so lyrical.
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