We’re thrilled to announce 34 Orchard’s Autumn 2023 issue’s Table of Contents!
Teeming with unreliably-narrated ghost stories, Issue 8 includes many burgeoning and experienced voices as well as special surprises. We’re privileged to bring you a brand new tale by Edgar Allan Poe Award winner Lynne Barrett, whose stories have been featured in more fine anthologies and journals than we can count and has also won the Moondance International Film Festival award for Best Short Story (we can’t do her accomplishments justice in this small space). And in a piercing piece of creative nonfiction penned exclusively for our readers, real-life ghost hunter L.E. Daniels—also an excellent short story writer—shares a tactile encounter with tormented souls in the ruins of Pompeii.
What’s been left unresolved for you? As the days get shorter and 2023 trundles toward its close, Issue 8 may be just what you need to remind you that you are not alone.
Cover Art: A Story to Tell – Trisha J. Wooldridge
The Solitary Man – Leen Raats
Weary Willie – Bethany Bruno
Missing – Sarah Cannavo
Forever Plastic Playhouses – Patrick Malka
Falling – Julie Sevens
Breaking Water – Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Split – Sam Rebelein
Adultery in Modern Massachusetts – Lynne Barrett
Cleansing Me of You – Deborah L. Davitt
Perfect Quiet – Kathleen Smith
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa – Wailana Kalama
Do I Just Let the Cancer Take You? – Lynne Schmidt
Keepsakes and Mementos Mori – Cormack Baldwin
Who Else Can See? – Megan Wildhood
Fog Over Jennings Beach – Jackson Kuhl
Beneath the Ice – Harrison Demchick
The Thing Under the Sink – Liam Hogan
Famine – Melanie Simutis
The Millstones on That Path – Robert Mayette
East St., Providence, RI – Joshua Rex
Weird Witness – L.E. Daniels
Only the Shape – Anj Baker
No Winter Maintenance – Susan R. Morritt
You’ll be able to download Issue 8 right from our Issues page here on November 10, 2023!
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