Desert Wash Walking
the more rock and open space the more it feels completely alive
Bill Pruitt
Bill Pruitt is a poet, fiction writer and Assistant Editor with Narrative Magazine. He has published poems in such places as Ploughshares, Country Journal, and Anderbo.com. He has performed his original story, “Two Kinds of Fear,” a documented telling of the lives of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass at various venues in Rochester. He taught English to non-native speakers for 26 years. He and his wife Pam live in Rochester and have a daughter, a son and two grandchildren.
At the Apex
Astra looked at the container she held in her hand. It had a magnifier on top, and its sides were screen mesh to hold what could be trapped inside without killing it. She said to her mother, Ruth, “Where’s the rest of it?” There was an urgency in her voice. Her mother’s attention was divided. There was her three year-old,… Read more →