The waters of the flood sit over the land, and they will go where they choose to go.
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Twenty-six responses to the 2016 election.
Read More...Leave Your Drawings in this House
Jin Morri was the first dog laid to rest in the Butte Camp cemetery.
Read More...Fandanguillo
I could go on at length about the impossible purples of orchids exploding from every offered crag in the palms or the balmy caress of Philippine winds pouring in from across several thousand miles of uninterrupted ocean.
Read More...The Enormity
I can feel it somewhere on the other side of the wall, as insistent as a heartbeat. Often it is all I know. A love that once held me as sweetly as a mother’s first sigh.
Read More...Sponsor’s Note: The Distance on the Look of Death
I have faced death in ways most people in the modern world can’t comprehend. I have felt my heartbeat slow and my limbs go numb as I waited for dawn in a flimsy bivouac amidst a world of snow and ice.
Read More...Flowers
Lois put a bulb in the cold ground and then pulled her fingers out of the hole. She wasn’t sure how many more she could manage. The sun was resting on the horizon, and she’d have to be inside before Henry got home.
Read More...Meat
“Is Josh here?” Evan asked before she’d pulled the front door all the way open.
Read More...Lady of Black Needle and String
The boy is downstairs, shouting for my mother. “Grandma!” I close the book. I put it down in its box, carefully. I think of your fingers on the clasp, thin and warm, and their prints, which I have already erased with my own touch long ago.
Read More...Death of the Plague Legion
“He’s here, sir. Over here.”
The proud legionnaire pushed aside a low branch, opening an annex within the dense and unending forest. Marcus and a few others filed through.
True Things I Shouldn’t Have Said Anyway (at a funeral)
FRIEND: It’s nice to see so many people here at his service.
ME: Yeah, especially since no one ever came to his parties.
Sponsor’s Note: Warnings
You have likely heard the recent news involving my company, Gorgons Bluff Ltd. Perhaps you saw the schadenfreude-laced headline in the West Lancet Courier, “Birder Supplier in Deep Doo over Wrongful Death Lawsuit.”
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