Mississippi Pearl

By Joel Arnold

In this award winning short story, Kelly Holmsted finds a huge Mississippi pearl while wading in a river. Refusing to sell it, she keeps it with her at all times until she loses it during a traumatic incident that she refuses to talk about.

Many years later at a family get together at a cabin next to a frozen lake, she decides to finally reveal the secret behind the loss of her pearl, as well as solve the problem of her abusive husband. But will the cost of her solution be too much for the rest of her family to bear?

This short story also appears in the short story collection Bait & Other Stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joel Arnold
• Release date: Aug 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476399454

Joel Arnold

Joel Arnold is the author of several novels. His short stories and articles have appeared in dozens of publications, including WEIRD TALES, CHIZINE, AMERICAN ROAD MAGAZINE and Cemetery Dance's anthology SHIVERS VII. In 2010 he received both a MN Artists Initiative Grant as well as the Speculative Literature Foundation's Gulliver Travel & Research Grant.Arnold teaches writing at student workshops throughout Minnesota and has given presentations about the Ox Cart trails of Minnesota and the Dakotas to several historical societies and other groups interested in history. He also serves as the literary director for the Savage Arts Council.Arnold lives near the Twin Cities in Minnesota with his wife, two kids, two cats, a dog and a ball python. Plus he makes a mean coffee cake.Sign up for his monthly newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/Gre2f

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