Micah Dean Hicks, Author at Witness

Micah Dean Hicks

Micah Dean Hicks writes fabulism, modern fairy tales, and other kinds of magical stories. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as New Letters, Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, and Baltimore Review. His story collection, Electricity and Other Dreams (New American Press 2013), received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. He attends the creative writing PhD program at Florida State University.

Flight of the Crow Boys

By Micah Dean Hicks

Fiction•Vol. XXVII No. 3 (Winter 2014)

People around here never wanted our family. Crow boys, they called us, a flock of five brothers and our father, all of us with long black hair. Flapping our over-sized, garage sale sleeves and falling over the fences the neighbors put between us and them. And maybe too because of the feathers. Our father hung… [Read More]