after fifty years of loyalty, he replaced every truck in his yard—then the dealer his father helped build tried to shut him out

Part 1 The first truck arrived before eight on a gray Tuesday morning. I was standing ankle-deep in mud beside Pond Two when I heard…

Part 1 By the third summer without real rain, people in Harney County had stopped looking at the sky. There was no point. Clouds still…

Part 1 The first morning Clara Bennett understood that somebody was trying to take her farm, she was standing in a dry irrigation ditch before…

Part 1 The night I bought the Maggie June, I had six dollars and eighty-three cents to my name. Six dollars of it disappeared before…

Part 1 The first sunflower stalk tore loose just after midnight, and for one terrible second I thought the whole wall was going with it….

I realized something was off the instant I noticed my husband’s hand lingering above my wineglass. Daniel Mercer believed I was staring toward the rooftop…