Original strawberry shortcake art by Lydia Hoskins

Ozark Strawberries by Dale Grubaugh with art by Lydia Hoskins

Original artwork by Lydia Hoskins. Ozark Strawberries by Dale Grubaugh These Ozark Hills can sure produce some mighty fine vittles. Blackberries, dewberries, gooseberries, huckleberries and strawberries. All of these berries grow wild ’round the Ozarks. Most, except for the dewberry, have been tamed. But none have been tamed like the strawberry. The wild strawberry, sometimes…

Original artwork by Tenille Blair-Neff

Picture Perfect by Freeman with art by Tenille Blair-Neff

Editor’s note: Freeman’s work contains very authentic and difficult adult themes. Above, original artwork by Tennille Blair-Neff Picture Perfect by Freeman Our entire family stands together for the last time ever All thirteen of us smiling toward the lens from in front of A red and green hollyhock hedgerow, Holding egg cartons and Easter baskets,…

Seth Daughtry

Plague Child’s Doctor excerpt with art by Seth Daughtry

Original artwork by Seth Daughtry. Plague Child’s Doctor by Joshua Heston There was a flicker of afternoon sun through sighing leaves. Movement came back into the world. The ratchet-like scrape of butcher knife against sharpening stone. The rustle of old newspapers being spread out on the floor.  Dirty yellow curtains billowed in the wind. The…