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D.T. Lumpkin

D.T. Lumpkin is back in Tennessee with his wife and two daughters, after living through three COVID lockdowns in London, England. His fiction was recently featured in Five Points.

— From September 2021
Fiction

Deep Eddy

They fished three tournaments together without breaking the top fifty before I told him to sign me up as his partner instead. At least I knew the difference between monofilament and fluorocarbon. I mean, damn.

September 2021
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

While We Waited

My mother became a missing person in the summer of 1994, when I was fourteen. The day she disappeared, she told my father and me she was going to the Piggly Wiggly in Lineville, about ten miles from our home in Delta, Alabama. She didn’t come back.

June 2015
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