Congratulations to this year’s Sunstone Fiction Contest winners! The crop of stories this year was especially robust, with an eclectic mix of genres, subjects, and voices. Sunstone subscribers and Patreon patrons (patreon.com/sunstone) can look forward to reading and hearing these stories soon. 1st place: “Companion Claws,” by Larry Menlove. From our judges: “The characters felt …
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The Blood of Thy Son: Fiction
By Larry Menlove I SAT IN an oaken pew, third row from the front, left side, with my mother, the two of us alone as the deacons passed the sacrament. The yeasty air of broken bread hung in the chapel like a veil, and when the tray came to me, I partook of the bread …
Willing to Work
By Larry Menlove A MAN STOOD at the traffic light at the corner of East Bay Boulevard and University Avenue. He was holding a sign: Tired Need food Willing to Work Brianna stopped in the right-turn lane onto University Avenue and leaned across the seat to get a good look at his face. Behind …
A Season in the Wilderness
By Larry Menlove Larry Menlove’s work has appeared in Irreantum, Dialogue, Torrey House Press, and other venues. He writes from Utah and chases the shade from one tree to the next. He is trying to shake a novel out of the maple he’s currently under. The day it began, I ate the bran muffin, …