THAT THIRD SUMMER AFTER THE HULL MOUNTAIN FIRE, Leonard Moore picked black-cap raspberries with his youngest son where the upper cabin had been. They made pie that day with their booty, a half dozen pies, with the sweetest of wild tart taste baked in their propane oven late in August with the doors open in their small cabin. If you had been there, you’d have gotten a slice they shared them with friends, and perhaps the pies were a rite of passage. Len had survived two years of divorce and single fatherhood, raising a boy from three years old pretty much by himself.
Published by Still Point Arts Review Summer 2023 here.
From a book of short stories And the Fires We Talked About, James Ross Kelly, UnCollected Press, 2020
Poems & Stories by James Ross Kelly-- 