By Emily Anderson, from “Three Little Novels,” published in Conjunctions: 63. Anderson erased portions of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books to “create an alternative series.” Anderson’s first book, Little: Novels, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX.

WINTER

Almanzo was eating.

He shouted, “Giddap!” a carrot in his hand.

Father came to the barn door and said, “That’s enough, son.”

Almanzo went downstairs and took two more doughnuts from the doughnut jar while Father measured oats and peas into the feed boxes.

At last they went in to dinner. There on the table was Mother, cooked in brown gravy and…