Of Love and Water

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When Grace encounters the little horse at the market, she feels a connection. She’s come to western China to teach English — as far away from Kentucky as she possibly can get — but something about the horse reminds her of home, and she knows she has to help it. Adopting the horse stirs memories of her former life, and the man she left behind. 

Told in a masterful braiding of past and present, Of Love and Water is a story of renewal from writer Elizabeth Burton. Burton brings her personal experience of living in western China to the story, sharing glimpses of Uyghur culture and language. Of Love and Water is a work of short fiction. 32 pages.

When Grace encounters the little horse at the market, she feels a connection. She’s come to western China to teach English — as far away from Kentucky as she possibly can get — but something about the horse reminds her of home, and she knows she has to help it. Adopting the horse stirs memories of her former life, and the man she left behind. 

Told in a masterful braiding of past and present, Of Love and Water is a story of renewal from writer Elizabeth Burton. Burton brings her personal experience of living in western China to the story, sharing glimpses of Uyghur culture and language. Of Love and Water is a work of short fiction. 32 pages.

Elizabeth Burton writes and teaches in far Western Kentucky, where she shares her life with five cats, three dogs, two horses, and one often bewildered husband. She holds an MFA from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Louisville Review, Chautauqua, The MacGuffin, Split Lip, JMWW, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, Does It Have Pockets?, Porcupine Literary Journal, Good River Review, and others.