Peekaboo tiptoed towards the stray cat preening itself in the abandoned house. His older brother, Shriekaboo, rolled his eyes. "Why are you creeping?" he asked. "The cat can't hear you." "He's ... [+]
"Some Weather," originally published in Issue 31.2 summer/fall 2019 of Gulf Coast, is featured in Short Edition's The Current. Aliceanna Stopher's short fiction can be found, or is forthcoming, in Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, Hobart, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The Best Small Fictions 2019. She is an Associate Editor for Colorado Review and lives in Colorado with her family. Follow her on Twitter @_itwillbeloud.
Originally published in Issue 31.2 summer/fall 2019 of Gulf Coast
It was one of those thunderstorms came on sudden-like. Before a body could cover its head it had passed on someplace else. Here, in our holler, we were used to such storms. We liked the surprise of them, usually, liked how some clouds seemed to gather up heavy water already in the air and wring it back out again. What was different about this storm, that first one late June, was what it left in its wake.We mistook the baby's squalling for outside noise for a stretch. Then Mama left supper going on the stove, fed-up she was with the racket, to shoo whatever creature it was away, but when she go