E. K. Moore

Place-based fiction by a geographer

Stories of weather, memory, streets, shorelines, and the strange life of places.

About

An eye for the emotional charge of place

E. K. Moore writes fiction attentive to the emotional charge of place — its weather, architecture, silences, and thresholds. With the eye of a geographer and the instinct of a fabulist, Moore's stories inhabit the borderlands between landscape and memory.

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Every place has a weather — and a memory that lingers after the sky has cleared.

Selected Works

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A pale summer dress on a hanger before a frosted window.

The Summer Dress

Flash Fiction · Forthcoming — Flash Fiction Magazine
A weathered hand rests on a call button; a constellation and a distant shore appear beyond the window.

Finger

Flash Fiction · Flash Fiction North, 2024
A man with groceries and a newspaper leans to speak with young men in a battered car in a parking garage at dusk.

Salam in the Garage

Flash Fiction · Flash Fiction North, 2025
A lichen-covered headstone by a misty shore, a pale pebble resting at its base.

A Grave and a Pebble

Short Story · White Wall Review, 2025

Places

Where the stories begin

Toronto. Southern Ontario.
Southern Portugal.
Lakeshores, suburbs, ravines, rooms.

These are the places where stories begin — a geography drawn across an ocean, from the lakeshores and ravines of Southern Ontario to the light and silence of Southern Portugal.

Antique-style map of the North Atlantic marking Toronto and Southern Portugal.
Publications E. K. Moore's fiction has appeared in
Flash Fiction North White WallReview Flash Fiction MagazineForthcoming

and other journals and magazines.