Beth Gilstrap’s work has appeared in Fwriction, Quiddity, Luna Luna Magazine, Superstition Review, The Minnesota Review, Kudzu House Quarterly, and Ambit, among others. She has attended residencies in Vermont and Oregon. She’s had stories nominated for The Pushcart Prize Anthology for 2015 and 2016 and also received a nomination for the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology. She spends most of her time at home in Charlotte with her husband and enough rescue pets to make life interesting. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s usually cooking too much food for two people. Her debut story collection, I AM BARBARELLA, is now available from Twelve Winters Press. She tweets @BettySueBlue and her work can be found at her website.
Growing up in North Carolina, I bore witness to and soaked up stories, which often seem made up to outsiders. On my grandparents’ porch, I begged cousins and aunts, and uncles and their friends to tell me about the past, to tell me the most messed-up tales they could come up with. So-and-so lost his hand to a corn picker. Uncle Joe stabbed the man who was sleeping with his wife as he tried to escape the scene of the crime in a taxi.
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In most parts of my life, I am an insufferable perfectionist and logical thinker. I don’t buy into...
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