Silver Mountain Press Upper Peninsula, Michigan
Front cover of Thirteen Miles North of Nelson, Volume III: Stories of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, illustrated by Jessica Schippers.

Thirteen Miles North of Nelson, Volume III

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Excerpt

My name is Benny and I don’t have a penny,” he sing-songed through the grey stubble on his haggard face. The gravelly voice of the octogenarian seemed to echo in the rusty Ford Taurus; first, against the cracked vinyl dashboard, split from years of recurring cycles of frigid cold and sunblasted heat. Then, back towards the piles of smelly musty blankets and dirty laundry stuffed in the back seat. It was a true Upper Peninsula car, complete with Indian Power bumper stickers and held loosely together, mainly with rust.

Opening of No-Name Lake
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Stories

  1. No-Name Lake
  2. The Broken Bowl
  3. Woman at the Well
  4. Clara
  5. Bunny Huntin’
  6. The Gold Pin
  7. Bill Junior
  8. A Hole in the Bucket Previously published in the U.P. Reader, Volume 8 (2024).
  9. The Carnival
  10. Thirteen Miles North of Nelson
  11. Orchids in the Sunroom

11 stories 208 pages Published August 2026 Cover and illustrations by Jessica Schippers

Reviews

  • Once again, Hilton Everett Moore writes about those subjects people don’t want to talk about … He tugs at our hearts, daring us to be more forgiving and less judgmental of others.

    Deborah K. FrontieraUP Book Review