Too Long in the Company of Rain appears in this issue
THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LONERS
“Too Long in the Company of Rain” is a short story I wrote that Doubleback Review recently published.
I remember stories of my grandmother’s brother, Uncle Ben, who lived alone in a house in the woods and was something of an enigma even to his closest relatives. Never married, no children. If he ever had work of any sort, it wasn’t mentioned. He owned no farm equipment or animals. Didn’t have a car. But he had guns.
Though he was a loner, he wasn’t alone in his way of life. At that time, there were people in rural areas with little if any income who subsisted on backyard vegetables or game they trapped or hunted. They lived in timber houses worn to washboard by the weather, usually an inherited home.
When you live in a remote area such as this with little interaction with other people, your personality may be affected, and sometimes this is a negative. This gives you an idea about the protagonist of “Too Long in the Company of Rain”.
Doubleback Review publishes pieces that were previously published at journals that have become defunct. I've had a number of stories and poems published by journals that no longer exist, such as the North Atlantic Review, The Binnacle, RiverSedge, Crack the Spine, and The Copperhead Review.
The link to the story is
https://doublebackreview.com/issue-8-1-april-2026/stanard-rain/
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