The inaugural award of the Gilchrist Prize in Short Fiction goes to Alyce Miller for her story Missing.  It is included in Issue #3 of China Grove. Buy it now!

It’s 2014. Pick up your shovel and start digging. Digging By Seamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends […]