Photo courtesy Orange County Archives.
Editor's Note
For our “PLACE” feature, we invited writers to submit one of their own photographs of a place together with a piece of flash fiction.
Special Issue: Place
The Dead Dog Tree by Steven John
Things Said and Done by Frances Gapper
The Meanderer by Mason Binkley
Saguaro Cacti Hold up Their Arms by Sudha Balagopal
Front Porch Swing by Sheree Shatsky
The Seventh Son by Sandra Arnold
The Winter Swimming of my Grandmother by Frankie McMillan
Mandy Wants to Touch the Horizon by Francine Witte
Retracing by Claire Polders
Milk Teeth by Emma Kernahan
Snuffed Candles by Michael Loveday
Nature Walk by Karen Jones
Eventide by Jayne Martin
Eternal by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Marmoset, Raccoon, and Fox by Karen Schauber
Into This World We’re Thrown by Al Kratz
Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere by Nod Ghosh
Stitches Unravelling by Tommy Dean
Weather-beaten by Andrew Stancek
Boy Things by Julia Strayer
On the Last Ferry to Inishbofin by Roberta Beary
What Remains by Jan Turk Petrie
Ebb’s Nook by Tim Craig
Leaves by Caitlin Myer
Black Magic Woman by Mary Thompson