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On Counting
A historian of rural ministry writes about the recurrence of numbers in places that do not call themselves superstitious.
Night Dispatch: The Last Long-Haul
Seventeen hundred miles across three states in a Kenworth T680 with a man who says he will retire when the last truck stop diner closes.
Three Funerals in Platte County
In a county losing its youngest residents to the cities, what does it mean to bury someone here? Three families. Three springs. One question.
A Manual for Returning
A man drives back to the town he left at seventeen and finds that some of the buildings have changed, and some of the people have not, and some are missing without explanation.
What the Corn Knows
Precision agriculture has turned the American field into a data source. The farmers who benefit least are the ones who grow the most.
The Minister’s Garden
A short story about a man who grew roses every year for forty years, and the season the roses failed to come up, and what he decided to do about it.