Longreads Member Pick: Graveyards, by Scott McClanahan

This week’s Longreads Member pick is “Graveyards,” a short story by Scott McClanahan about a family visit to the cemetery. The piece was published last year in Harper Perennial’s Forty Stories collection, and it will appear in McClanahan’s forthcoming book Crapalachia, a portrait of growing up in rural West Virginia, published by Two Dollar Radio.

Read an excerpt here.

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Illustration by Kjell Reigstad