Rachel Savage

Rachel Savage is an oversized hobbit living in a kudzu-choked crevice of North Carolina. Her stories tend to lean toward the Southern and strange. When she's not wrangling her offspring, you'll likely find Rachel wandering deep in half-forgotten woods. Rachel has work forthcoming in Wallstrait.

Sitting up with the Dead

Rachel Savage

The night before Grandaddy Burl died, Colly dreamed of a flathead catfish swallowing him whole. Summer storms had been rolling in since June; the mountain air sitting heavy like flannel on fevered skin. Splashes of sunbeams illuminated verdant pockets, but the inevitability of more rain coaxed the shadows out from crevices and caves to smother […]