The town we were leaving, Andes, is quiet and lonely, ruled by landscape—a meadowed and mountain-ed paradise where the sunset turned the mountains red so that winter-time walks with my dogs sometimes felt like a baptism by bloody light.
Author
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Bridget Muller Sampson runs an inn and a restaurant with her husband in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard where they live with her rescue border collie, Pearl. Bridget is also Lead Gardener at the inn. Her short stories have been published in Northern New England Review, Ruminate, and Consequence. The story in Ruminate won the 2022 Waking Flash Prose Prize and the 2018 J.F. Powers Short Story Award by Dappled Things. Bridget earned her M.F.A. in Fiction at the Bennington Writing Seminars. The essay "Geography" is an excerpt from a book in progress titled "The Year I Farmed."