In the race to rejuvenating water we must cross a finish line of eroding life. The final stretch funnels our bare legs, sliding through beach pea vine snares, Pitcher’s thistle pokes, and blackened sand cherry roots, immortally...
“You’re gonna have to up your game tomorrow—Carol’s on the truck!” That thrown down at me from the truck window and Clayton B. Hill—a big man, and owner and operator of Clayton B. Hill Sanitation. “Double route tomorrow and...
“Screw the coyotes,” Suki said. “I want to see the meteor shower.” She grabbed her jacket, flicked the farm lights off, and slipped out the door. It was true that with the drought things came down from...
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have
– James Baldwin
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