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Kim Church

Kim Church

April 29, 2013 by PBQ

Kim Church’s last story in Painted Bride Quarterly, “Bullet,” was included in Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (W.W. Norton), The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, and translated into Farsi as the title story in the 2009 Iranian anthology Golouleh. Her stories have also appeared in Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, North Carolina Literary Review, […]

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Kim Church: Bullet

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

I know what a bullet can do. Everybody has an idea, everybody’s seen close-ups—gaudy wounds, geysers of blood, arms and legs flopping, life kathumping to a close. TV-bullet drama. But there are other, not-so-spectacular ways a bullet can work. My husband wore a bullet on a chain around his neck. He had blond chest hair, […]

Filed Under: contributors 69, Fiction, Fiction 69, Issue 69 Tagged With: Contributors 69, Fiction, Fiction 69, Kim Church

Kim Church: Victuals

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

Picture a man walking into a grocery store — Harris-Teeter, say.  An old man in a corduroy coat, tufts of acrylic pile spilling out the sleeves.  He stops between the automatic doors, feels around in his pockets, checks his wallet. No list. He glances around, frowning, as if debating whether to soldier on without it […]

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Fiction, Fiction 83, Issue 83 Tagged With: Contributors 83, Fiction, Fiction 83, Kim Church

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