Erin Fortenberry’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Midwestern Gothic, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Wyoming with her husband and daughter and is at work on a novel.

FICTION

The Noise, The Grave, The Sea

By ERIN FORTENBERRY

“He floats face down; the half-orb of his clouded eyes echoing the sphere of the earth. His beard is soft in the water, tender where in life it bristled.”