Ted Morrissey's fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in approximately eighty journals (recently North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Rain Taxi). His most recent novels are Mrs Saville (2018) and Crowsong for the Stricken (2017), winner of the International Book Award in Literary Fiction, as well as the American Fiction Award, from Book Fest, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book. His new novel, The Artist Spoke, will be published in the fall or early next year.
Max’s barking roused him from his black-coffee reverie, staring at its smooth steaming surface, waiting for it to cool, reflecting on Clara’s failing memory even though she was hardly an old woman, two years his junior, in fact—a point she enjoyed ribbing him about, especially on his birthdays. The sound rolled on the wind,…
