Robyn Oughton | The Sun Magazine

Robyn Oughton

Robyn Oughton works as a visiting nurse. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Aura, and Sonora Review, and is forthcoming in a Crossing Press anthology of women’s writing on midlife sexuality. She lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

— From April 1992
Fiction

A Rescue

I pushed myself back against the rock and felt around for a handhold. When I finally got myself anchored and half turned around, the first thing I spotted, not two feet from my face, was the shoe of Manny Spaggot: one dirty old sneaker all by itself upside down on the ledge.

April 1992
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