Moira Crone
Moira Crone has six books, most recently What Gets Into Us, and the forthcoming speculative novel, “The Not Yet. ( 2012) . Former director of the Creative Writing Program at LSU, she won the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Southern Fellowship of Writers for the body of her work in 2009. Her writings have been selected for New Stories From The South The Year’s Best five times, and appeared in over a dozen other anthologies, as well as magazines The New Yorker, and Oxford American. “Small Silver Horse” is part of an in-progress Post-Katrina collection working title, Reconstruction.
Reading List
Small Silver Horse
Not so long ago, on the banks of the Mississippi, Charlotte Avery Cole felt a sudden convulsiveness in her breast. She was terrified. When she doubled over and began to gag, witnesses thought she might be close to death. The …