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Stefanie Freele

Stefanie Freele
Stefanie Freele’s newly released short story collection, Surrounded by Water (Press 53), includes the winning story of the Glimmer Train Fiction Open. Her first collection, Feeding Strays (Lost Horse Press) was a finalist in the John Gardner Binghamton University Fiction Award and the Book of the Year Award. Stefanie's published and forthcoming work can be found in magazines such as Sou'wester, Mid-American Review, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, The Florida Review, American Literary Review, Night Train, Edge, and Pank. Her website is: www.stefaniefreele.com.

The Widow, The Pillow, The Sagging House

By Stefanie Freele
Fiction•Vol. XXV No. 3 (Fall 2012)

Evan is the first man to knock on her door after the funeral. She is pale, gaunt, in sky-blue flannel pajamas and appears unwashed. He says you look the part of the widow. She responds, with a thin finger-hand held up weakly, come back in one year. Because the other guys are still in the… [Read More]

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