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Tag: Issue9

A Letter from Our Editor

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

Thanks for checking out the Summer 2022 edition of the River and South Review. While I’ve worked on other literary magazines in my time, this is my first time actually writing the customary letter from the editor…

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Saving Gold

Emily Updegraff

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

The women put up peaches each summer because trees give up their gold all at once. It’s hard to save something for later— to crush…

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With Oranges, from Naples

Jennie Long

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

There are vegetable gardens pressed right up against the train tracks. I spy rows of purple cauliflowers growing round in leafy beds as my train…

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Picture

Jerry Wemple

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

A few people said you looked like your father, but you weren’t sure whether they meant it or were simply seeking something to say to…

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Initiation

N.C. Miller

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

-1987- David Clubb watched the training instructor shave three days of growth off his face while steering the tractor-trailer down Interstate 44 at seventy-five miles…

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Cheerless Morning, RAT Beach

Tobi Alfier

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

Picture this summer scene…He wakes up so hungover his headache hurts him in the knees, campervan crooked-parked across three spots in the empty beach parking,…

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Fifteen Things to Consider during a 15-Minute Collect Call

Mikaela Kesigner

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

1. When your mother is in jail, there’s an endless list of things you get to feel guilty about doing. To name a few: showering…

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Pastel on Gray Paper

Jennifer Rodin Tabert

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

Dark reflections of pastel on gray paper curve into themselves a girl, her eyes night-lit, her hair catching faded sun turning the light…

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Backwards

Louise Wilford

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

“…The coroner noted that the body had signs of serious injury unrelated to the fall from the bridge, but recorded a death by drowning, probably…

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2-22-22

William Doreski

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

No woodpeckers pulping suet this winter, no juncos or finches throbbing at the sunflower feeder. Bad to find the woods depleted, the river sullen under…

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A Community of Means

William Doreski

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

Square old houses brace themselves against the raw intelligence that slowly devolves as history. We’ve never inhabited such rooms, being of sturdy peasant stock and…

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Beyond the Ditch at the End of the Road

Byron Spooner

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

My earliest memories are of my mother and have their origin in the brief period of time my family lived in central New Jersey. I…

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All My Friends Are Millionaires

John Dorroh

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

Perhaps I was too busy teaching school as they buzzed about the latest action-packed movie, the trendy new restaurant, the neighborhood going up across town.…

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Ponytails

Anna Oberg

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

I step out into the snow, big white flakes that won’t stick to the cobblestone for an hour or so. Nolan waves, leaves. I cross the…

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At Heart

Laine Derr

by River & SouthPosted onJune, 2022June, 2022

At heart, perhaps, I’m pig-like, a javelina with beastie lips and a barbecue belly. I’ve grown tired of speeches, yellow rumped warblers dreaming of dachas…

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