Stories
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
Flannery O’Connor
The Days Without Time | Fiction
In Myrtle Beach during the early summer of 2017, heretofore identified only as the days without time, my friends took to laughing at mini golf courses with water spurting from the mouths of enamel-coated dragons, vacated beachwear warehouses still boasting names like...
Benediction | Fiction
1. My grandma bought a trailer on the county line and left it to mom when she passed and I suppose if I wasn’t locked up I could lay claim one day. The old widow that collected lot rent always told us they weren’t trailers they were mobile homes but that was about the...
Best of the Net 2020 Nominees | News
The New Southern Fugitives is proud to announce our Best of the Net nominations for 2020! We nominated these pieces for Best of the Net back in October, but we wanted to wait until our “Best Of” issue to announce them alongside our Pushcart Prize nominees....
Pushcart Prize 2021 Nominees | News
The New Southern Fugitives is excited to announce our Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2021!. About the Pushcart Prize: The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Since 1976,...
The Last Cup | Fiction
It cannot speak to her, I must speak through it. I must say in a moment what I could not otherwise say in a lifetime and what I did not manage to say in the lifetime I shared with her. The process itself is the statement, the making of it. Every time my fingers touch...Follow Us
