Sheehan, Chris – FIVE SOUTH

Contributor

Chris Sheehan’s fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Redivider, [PANK], Blue Earth Review, and elsewhere. He’s an MFA graduate of St. Mary’s College of California and lives in the northern Sierra.

Fiction

John in Concord by Chris Sheehan

March 22, 2021

The house was a sprawling ranch cut into mustard grass and adobe.

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
My wife and I arrive in Paris and check into our hotel on the edges of the 2nd and 9th Arrondissement.
Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
It wasn’t yet six o’clock when the mine supervisor of Shannon Hill called the Byrd household and woke Ruth out of a simmering sleep.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
Saturation by Claire Oleson
I am diving for my mother’s last working kidney.