Short stories by Ethan Rutherford
Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in BOMB, Tin House, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Post Road, Esopus, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories. His first book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and two children. His second collection, Farthest South, will be published by A Strange Object in 2021.
Listing 2 stories.
A woman tells a story about a fox who, to great consequences, raises a human child.
After a Confederate soldier with a disability from South Carolina volunteers to take part in a submarine mission during the Civil War, the experimental submarine he crews causes more problems than it solves as the Confederate casualties continue to rise.