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Don Waters

Fiction

Winter 2012

Estray

By Don Waters

Hard to think such hot open range, some days, was prison. The biggest difference from inside was the sun, that sun—endlessly burning ears and necks and deepening brow lines. Also […]

Fiction

Fall 2007

Mormons in Heat

By Don Waters

He that knoweth not good from evil is blameless.     —Alma 29:5, The Book of Mormon Sunlight flashes off chrome fenders, hitting Eli’s eyes, blinding him. Eight motorcycles enlarge in the rearview […]

Don Waters

A micro-interview with Don Waters by KR Associate Jill Hanley. Don Waters is the author of the story collection Desert Gothic.  His story “Estray” was featured in the Winter 2012 […]