Jacob Knabb's "Studebaker"

I like Jacob Knabb's short piece "Studebaker" which you can find at the cool website, Everyday Genius.

It was posted on 10/25/11. If you haven't checked it out, you should. It's a web journal that's updated Monday through Friday. Different months of the journals have different editors. Some of the stories in the journal have been featured in Wigleaf Top 50 Stories for 2011.

The piece is about a kid whose father's car has been in an accident. The piece begins, "I have never been able to describe the way my father’s voice sounded with his nose full of blood as cars passed us on the interstate." Check out the story here: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/10/jacob-s-knabb.html

What do you look for in a short piece of fiction? What grabs your attention and compels you to keep reading?

"Indian Summer"

I really like the lyric eeriness of this piece in the generally excellent journal, Stirring:

http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/briggsm.htm

(Admittedly, they once published one of my stories. Does that mean my story is excellent?)

Do you like this story? How would you characterize it? Do we need to characterize it? I really like the density of this piece. What do you like about it? There's so much here--life, death, seasons.

In addition, there are some fine poems in this issue of Stirring that I would check out as well. Enjoy this story and the literature of fall.