Short-Story Month 2012: Day 8, Roots by Chadwick Redden

"Ghost Trees" by Rosino,
Used under a CC license

Welcome to Tuesday, the eighth day of National Short Story Month.  Today's selection was recently published in the literary journal red lightbulbs, an increasingly exciting location for new and interesting poetry and fiction:




"We drove ninety miles south to watch the lunar eclipse. Light pollution and cloud cover all the way down. In a field your shoelaces forgot their knots . . ."

"Roots" 

by Chadwick Redden
(2011)