Author
Rachel Swearingen
Rachel Swearingen is a doctoral candidate in the creative writing program at Western Michigan Univeristy, where she serves as fiction editor for Third Coast. [2007]
CONTRIBUTIONS
Fiction
Apr 16 2015
How to Walk on Water
I’ll show you the backside of your soul. That’s what Arvel Wilkes told Nolan’s mother, Sigrid, the night of the attack. Nolan had found a manila envelope with a smeared carbon copy of the original police report inside. She had been just twenty-six when it happened, younger than Nolan now. The report didn’t note what his mother said in response to Wilkes, just that there were “minimal defensive marks on victim.” They had been living on the north side of Seattle at the time, his father away on a business trip, Nolan asleep in his crib.
Fiction
Mar 01 2007
Strangers Among Us
Here she was again, in a strange apartment, at a party, alone. The first glass of wine gulped too quickly. Later, she would be certain it was the backless couch that had caused her to drink too much.