“Stone Fly” by Rachel McKimmy, winner of a Hopwood Prize in Nonfiction, appears in the Winter 2021/2022 issue of Canary Lit.
Outtake:
There is a small stream with an old bridge over it, a bridge which is rotting through. On the ground are several inches of snow. Breath puffs out from between cold-chapped lips, chilled air burns lungs. One of the team wades into the icy water up to his waist, wearing brown plastic waders, filling a sample cup beneath the flow of the water and screwing the cap closed. Then, with what looks like a butterfly net, he begins dragging muck up from the depths.
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