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Barry Hannah Competition 3rd Place–Nathan Gower

I'll be sending prize packages out this Wednesday. This is a good opportunity for others I've missed. If  you've been published in FCAC and you have not received a book from me please mail rusty.barnes@gmail.com with your snail address.

What's There to Talk About?

I always meet her, when I meet her, at 1:00 pm outside the [...:]

Massey Energy Faces Criminal Probe

Heard first on NPR, via my lovely wife, and verified by Reuters.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Massey Energy Co is under criminal investigation by the FBI after the deadly mine explosion earlier this month in West Virginia that killed 29, U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The FBI is probing the company and the circumstances [...:]

Maurice Manning Reading

courtesy of Denton Loving:

Tube Time

Here's something you might be interested in.

PBS will be broadcasting Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People Thursday, April 29 and continue each Thursday through May 20. So if you missed it the first time around now's your chance to see it. It is well worth the time. National PBS will be broadcasting an [...:]

Old Fish, by Nathan Tyree

Down here the mining companies built the towns. Everyone owed their living to the minerals coming from the belly of the earth. Even if they didn't swing a pick in the dark, they worked at one of the rooming houses, shops, or saloons that the miners needed. As things will, the shaft mining dried up. [...:]

Barry Hannah Memorial Competition Results

Results are in, and here are the prizes, if you've forgotten:

First prize: packet of Hannah books,  Airships, Ray, Geronimo Rex, a $25.00 gift card from Barnes & Noble
Second prize: Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and my book Breaking it Down.
Third prize: Breaking it Down
All placing stories will be published in Fried Chicken and Coffee

First prize winner: Jeff [...:]

Riverside, fiction by Kurt Taylor

Nicole swung around the corner of the café counter in her smooth way, balancing a tray of dishes and coffee cups, just right, before stacking everything in the bus tub. She wore the same tight-fitting white outfit she cleaned every day before she came to work at 6:00 AM. Two days ago, I'd seen everything [...:]

The Wiliiamsport Sun-Gazette on Marcellus Shale

Protestors outside the Penn-Wells Hotel, Wellsboro PA

Politicians propound challenge of gas growth is balancing fact, fiction

Cheryl Clark writes in the Sun-Gazette:

WELLSBORO, PA – As gas drilling protestors staged a vigil outside, state and federal legislators spoke about that hot topic Thursday at the Tioga County Development Corp.'s 14th annual Legislative Breakfast at the Penn [...:]

EPA Limits Mountaintop Removal

Only a little overdue. . .

By Christopher J. Jackson Register-Herald Reporter

BECKLEY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tightened limitations on mountaintop removal with new actions to "clarify" and strengthen guidelines for Appalachian mining permits.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Thursday the guidelines were long overdue and were being implemented to protect [...:]

Blood Brothers by John McManus

I first met Ray up in the mountains at the I-40 rest stop, where I used to go to meet guys sometimes. I found him leaning against a wall, albino-pale, with these watery fish eyes. We messed around in a stall for a bit, and then he told me to meet him at the red [...:]