Cate McGowan
Cate McGowan is the author of the collection, True Places Never Are (Moon City Press, 2015), winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award. A Georgia native whose flash is anthologized in W. W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, she’s contributed to many publications, including Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, and Vestal Review. McGowan’s currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy.
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A Slip Jig and Reel in Cut-Time
Daddy dogs with the coal boys, clocks the loose-planked floor with his boot. Resin dust rises, gambols to “Jayman’s Stomp.” The bodhrain beat time for the generations, while ghosts of fiddle and pennywhistle do-si-do in the lamplight. History’s crackled record …