BROWN HOUND PRESS

A small press based in Lexington, Kentucky that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic, and literary fiction.

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We publish one excellent short story every week. Our weekly stories reach thousands of readers, including best-selling and award-winning authors, editors, publishers, and literary agents.

As for our taste, we like stories that are offbeat. Quirky is good. Dark humor is good. You might call our style mystery, literary, or Southern Gothic.

Story of the Week

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Baggage
Ellen Birkett Morris
Baggage
Ellen Birkett Morris

The first thing I did was remove the crucifixes. There were beautiful ones, the blue Murano glass etched with vines adorned with a silvery Jesus, and the brightly colored, hand-painted pinewood cross from El Salvador that featured half the face of Mother Mary radiating Christian love. I couldn’t imagine my mom Alma buying either of them. They must have been gifts in exchange for donations she’d made to groups that kept pregnant teenagers from aborting their babies. There were scary crucifixes, too. Jesus with concave ribs and stigmata on oxidized metal with a ghostly resonance. These were more mom’s style. I used to say they were from her “sinners in the hands of an angry God” collection.

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Ellen Birkett Morris