Throwback Thursday |An ON FIRE Excerpt: “Red Curtain” by Jaclyn Adomeit

The girl smells like the laundry soap of my childhood, but I haven’t smelled anything close to fresh-breeze or lilac-mist in years. I splash canteen water on her face. She sputters, choking as she inhales. I step back and crouch down across the cooking fire. Laundry searches the dark trees, her pony tail whipping back…

Proper Campfire Stories by Jaclyn Adomeit

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Jaclyn Adomeit author of “Red Curtain,” which is featured in our new anthology ON FIRE, out now. Campfire stories have a long and sordid history (citation unavailable), and the art of spinning a flame-lit tale is a skill few master. A tale-spinner must read their audience. If this wasn’t an art,…