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, […]
Kim Church
Kim Church: Bullet
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, […]
Kim Church: Victuals
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 […]