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Nick Bertelson

Nick Bertelson’s work appears in Prairie Schooner, The Saturday Evening Post, and descant. Bertelson is the winner of the Gary Wilson Short Fiction Award. Currently, he is a fiction reader for New England Review.

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

’Roomers

By Nick Bertelson

As soon as Rory got out of prison, he was going mushroom hunting. Late April, and he knew morels would be popping up along the river. Of course, other people […]