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R.T. Jamison

R.T. Jamison, an Idaho native, has plied a variety of trades, including graphic design, advertising, and bait sales. After living in Phoenix Metro, Chicagoland, and Tokyo, he now resides in Northern California with his wife who rescued him and a dog they rescued together. His fiction has appeared in Sou’wester, Wisconsin Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.

Fiction

Summer 2014

Forty Days in the Desert

By R.T. Jamison

It’s raining sand. Fine, warm, flaxen sand. It drifts down like powdered sugar and dusts the trees and lawn furniture. No breeze distracts this sand from its sharp incline, straight […]