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Tom Lake

Tom Lake is the pen name of a writer who lives in a small town in Pennsylvania but sometimes misses homes he has known near Spruce Knob and Brushy Fork in West Virginia. He teaches composition and business writing at a university but sometimes wonders what it would be like to teach caving and stream ecology again. His writings are forthcoming in Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, and Mid-American Review.

The Chambermaid

By Tom Lake
Fiction•Vol. XXV No. 3 (Fall 2012)

When you embrace someone, clasp them for days at a time.— Irene McKinney Marie’s parents ran the Galena Store and Guest Cottages for the fishermen lured there by the Big Wood River with its trout the size of a man’s arm, her father boasted, or he might say enormous from eating the arms of men,… [Read More]

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