Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

Read

Hal Walling

Hal Walling lives in Vancouver, Canada. His stories have appeared in Missouri Review, Malahat Review, Dalhousie Review, Southwest Review, New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. He is working on a novel.


May/June 2017

Scavengers

By Hal Walling

My stepfather was a painter and photographer of birds. His name was Frank, but I called him Finch, and he called me Loon, which was close enough to Allison. I […]