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Crackheads and Corn

Crackheads and Corn

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“The explosion of drugs like meth and crack in Rural America has torn away at the psyche of each and every small townmore

Una Vida

Una Vida

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“He called her Lucy, after my Ma, on account of her eyes being big, round, and dyingmore

BULLshot: Michael Hemmingson

BULLshot: Michael Hemmingson

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“When a person becomes a witness…of a violent crime, their lives are never the same”more

BULLshot: Mike Campbell

BULLshot: Mike Campbell

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The author of “Half a Man to Bury” discusses memories and death and being remembered in deathmore

Half a Man to Bury

Half a Man to Bury

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“Uncle Bill got his legs bit off by a shark and died before his body was brought to shore. You might have seen it in the newsmore

Three Fishermen

Three Fishermen

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“You’d be out fishing with Bob at the aqueduct and Bob would return after having been gone for a while, and he’d say, ‘Come here, I want to show you somethingmore

Their Next

Their Next

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“Neither of them was Buddhist, but what they had realized in this valley so many years ago had never left, and they wished they never had eithermore

Obituary for a Poet Heretic

Obituary for a Poet Heretic

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“My father was a surgeon, a shaman and a greyhound. A runner in his youth, he thought little of exercise and called himself a cultured couch potato. As a doctor he loved each patient and included them in what he called prayersmore