June 2013
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I have a new short story called Tintypes published at Ohio Edit. I am very excited and hope you enjoy reading it! http://ohioedit.com/2013/06/26/tintypes-short-fiction-by-brianne-kohl/
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Clouds were spun like sugar at a carnival, pure white puffs set against a brilliant blue sky. In those days, all the mysteries of the universe were quiet, a whisper lost in the wind. Grainy stalks of corn reached up from the loamy soil. A gravel driveway, shrouded by forest that lasted a mile in…
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“I didn’t ask for much,” he said in a voice of crushed rock. “I never asked for too much.” “You say that, man. You say that all the time, Ed. Problem is, ain’t no one left to care,” Detective Waters replied. Ed smiled over at the detective, a drowsy close-mouthed tightening of pink chapped lips.…
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Being Your Daughter Means… I can spot when someone is cheating at cards because of the countless ways your eyes would shift to my hand how bold your lies are in Gin Rummy and no where else. You will always quietly kick my tires or check my oil when I’m not looking Because, even though…
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The problem with introspection is that it has no end. – Philip K. Dick In 2003, I was accepted into the Southampton – Long Island University Master of Fine Arts program. Based on my fiction portfolio, I was offered a small scholarship of $1000 a semester. I’d attended the 2002 Southampton’s Writer’s Conference and fell in…
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Written in prolepsis, this novella tells the story of Kelly Kelleher, a young woman who meets a US Senator at a friend’s Fourth of July party. Only known as “The Senator,” a thinly veiled version of Ted Kennedy, Kelly finds herself in his car on the way to a romantic interlude. Kelly is an analogue…
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In high school, I was on the school newspaper. I was a writer, and later an editor, of The Camel Tracks at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming. We later changed the name to The Humphrey Herald, and as far as I know, its still called that to this day. I was a hard…
Brianne M. Kohl 