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Laughing Trout (a different kind of love story)

Painting by Kendahl Jan Jubb.
Laughing Trout
(a different kind of love story)
“Catching fish like this is impossible. I settle for staring at the current, which moves down over a stepladder of rocks into intermittent valleys of shadow.” from Laughing Trout by Patricia L. Meek.
Laughing Trout is my short story published by Ball State University in their literary magazine The Broken Plate, Spring edition, 2017. You can read the story by finding the sample edition and clicking the arrow.