Roxanne Doty

Roxanne Doty's stories and poems have appeared in Superstition Review, Forge, I70 Review, Soundings Review, Four Chambers Literary Magazine, Lascaux Review, Lunaris Review, Journal of Microliterature, NewVerseNews, Saranac Review, Gateway Review and Reunion-The Dallas Review. Her short story, "Turbulence," (Ocotillo Review) was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart prize for short fiction, and two other stories were finalists in the 2012 and 2014 New Letters’ Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction. Roxanne is currently working on a short story collection and a novel in linked stories. Her novel Out Stealing Water is being published by Regal House Publishing in August 2022.

Out Stealing Water

A dozen empty paint buckets rattle in the truck bed as Emily and her two uncles, Dwight and Jay, head west on Van Buren to the ragged edges of downtown Phoenix. Dwight drives, and Jay dangles his arm out the passenger window, his palm spread wide to catch the wind, his feet tapping on the floorboard.
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