October Soil

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October Soil

Author

Jack Harrell

Published in

Irreantum vol. 6, no. 2 (October 2004)

"October Soil" is a short story by Jack Harrell. The story is about an unnamed husband and father-to-be who has just moved from Illinois to the west to go to grad school. The story explores fatherhood from a number of different perspectives: The main character is about to become a father, but his own father abandoned the family. The main character also thinks about how Adam must have felt right after he left the Garden of Eden.

[edit] Publication History

"October" was first published in Irreantum in 2004. It was reprinted in A Sense of Order and Other Stories (2010).

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