Contributor

Ross McMeekin’s upcoming story collection, BELOW THE FALLS, will be published in early 2024 by Thirty West Publishing House. His stories have appeared in magazines such as Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and Redivider. He edits the literary journal Spartan.

Fiction

The Failure by Ross McMeekin

He was the kind of person who, while chopping onions at a friend’s party, proceeds to cut off his own finger—knuckles and all—and immediately, with thought to nothing else, worries how the host might react to the mess.