Neil, Juliette – FIVE SOUTH

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Juliette Neil is a writer and translator currently based in Palermo, Sicily.

The First Time I Dug a Hole by Juliette Neil

September 18, 2022

It was a Saturday, early April, in the Shenandoah Valley, and our biology class was planting trees.

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.