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Broke Down Morning – A Short Story

Tree Gardner and her sister, Tomlyn, were not Southerners in the traditional sense. Their parents had come to South Carolina after a chance encounter at a tent revival in Savannah, Georgia. The father had worked on Wall Street before a slighted lover, who just so happened to be his boss, threatened to oust him for insider trading. He left town in a hurry, deciding he would “go on the road, you know, like Jack Kerouac.”…

November 20, 2017

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Short Stories, Southern Growing Pains

A Brief Record of Interrupted, Rural Solitude

Miriam McEwen

I expect she is a herald of the woman I will grow into, if I’m lucky, or lazy, or a touch of both.

September 6, 2017

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Sexual Assault, Short Stories

Harebrained Youth

Miriam McEwen

I. You might even know me. I am instantly recognizable by the way my eyes light up when someone (a man, say) in their mid-forties works the death of Kurt Cobain into casual conversation. Note to self – the word nevermind has implications when uttered in a bar after dark. “He was taken from us much too soon,” they say, as if the Nirvana frontman was beamed up by the grunge extraterrestrials who were good enough…

August 8, 2017

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About Miriam McEwen

Miriam McEwen hails from Mountain Rest, a small town in the northwestern corner of South Carolina. A recent graduate of Clemson University, earning a Bachelor’s in English with a minor in Creative Writing. As well as former President of Delta Alpha Pi, the only academic and service-oriented honor society at Clemson exclusively for students with disabilities. Miriam is a Disability Rights’ advocate, having worked closely with such organizations as the Tiger2Tiger Student Panel. She is a former member of the Student Accessibility Services Advisory Board, which works to achieve Universal Design in the structural elements of the campus and in course curriculum. From 2014 to 2017, she worked as a Student Director for the Clemson Literary Festival. Miriam’s prose was featured at the charitable event, Writers’ Harvest, in 2016. In the spring of 2017, her work in fiction was recognized at the Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards.

Throughout her fiction and poetry, Miriam deals with questions of femininity, disability, and environmentalism. She plans to pursue her Masters of Fine Art in fiction.

Miriam’s incredible university work was featured in an article titled “Making a Difference, One Word at a Time,” by The Newsstand, a Clemson University publication.

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