Josh Rolnick, Author at Meridian

Features Fiction Issue 44

Trawlers

Josh RolnickJanuary 1, 2021March 22, 2021

They went every Friday. It was something he looked forward to at the end of a hard day at the end of a hard-earned week. Not something they had to discuss. Five o’clock would come. Flora would put on a nice dress—maybe the pale blue one that uncannily matched the...

Contests Features Fiction Issue 44

Tiny Baba

Steph KarpJanuary 1, 2021March 22, 2021

Baba was tiny. Not short—diminutive. So tiny she had to sit in a booster seat at the table. So tiny she had to hold my pinky as we walked, even in her five-inch platform Mary Janes. You could barely hear Baba, she was so tiny and far away. She would...

Contests Current Features Fiction Issue 45

Wandering

Jared CarlsonDecember 31, 2020August 22, 2021

I’m lying on a gurney, being wheeled down a long hallway with overhead fluorescent lights, while chewing on—what I think—is a tooth. If I had to guess, then maybe a bicuspid, the ones in between the canines and molars. A nurse with short curly brown hair is holding my hand,...

Contests Current Features Fiction Issue 45

In Dayton, Ohio, in 1919

John HarnDecember 31, 2020April 21, 2021

Paul married a stenographer. A girl from church with ice-blue eyes and sandy hair braided in the modern way. He was nineteen, assembling pumps for Barney & Smith, the giant rail-car maker. They talked about things over tea. Big things in low voices. They liked the idea of in-laws and...

Features Fiction Issue 44

Gingersnaps

Sophia VeltfortDecember 30, 2020March 22, 2021

That Andrew ventured into the guest room at all was unusual. It was the room where his daughter from his first marriage stayed when she visited, and he thought of it as hers. He always suspected she would intuit any betrayal of her privacy and add it to the tab...

Interviews

Q&A with C Pam Zhang

Roberto Rodriguez-EstradaApril 23, 2020February 20, 2021

Rarely is a debut novel received with as much anticipation and praise as C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Set in the aftermath of the California gold rush, the land ravaged and depleted of gold, the novel follows siblings Lucy, twelve, and Sam, eleven, who are...