Susan Tepper is the author of seven books of fiction and poetry. Her new title Monte Carlo Days & Nights (Rain Mountain Press, NYC) is a novella that takes place in the south of France. Tepper is an award-winning writer with multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her book What May Have Been.
This land requires blood to go on. I look up from the meal as your knife clatters against the dish. You are eating the meat of blood, dear Petrov. I cooked this animal for the evening meal. You shake your head in a rough way. Saying it’s not the same. Continuing to eat. Ferocious now. Avoiding my gaze. Earlier the… Read more →
Postcards Day after I purchase the snake I get a postcard. From my brother Doug. Older by six years. Hey Bro it starts. Doug doesn’t phone or email. Sends postcards. Usually fences. Split-rail fences like out west. Or wide plank fences that keep back horses. All kinds. This latest being a high fence like Tom Sawyer painted. We grew… Read more →