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
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...
