Community stories.
Stories about neighbors, small towns and strangers who show up.
The Pies On The Station Steps
Before the light I bake in the dark. I have for so long now that my hands know the kitchen better than my eyes do.... Read more
The Boy Who Brought The Coats Back
The boy with no coat The winter this all started, I was not trying to start anything. I was just a lunch lady with a... Read more
The Wheelchair Swing The Men Built
The fence line My name is Carol. I am sixty-two years old, and I have lived in the same house on the same street since... Read more
The Barn Where The County Got Married
Chapter 1 For forty years I kept a key on a nail by my kitchen door that did not open my house. It opened the... Read more
The Pine Boxes His Class Built
The Box He Was Buried In My husband Dale died on a Tuesday in October, in the back bedroom, with the maple outside the window... Read more
The Stranger Who Paid The Layaway
The busiest three feet in the county My name is Verna, and for twenty-two years I ran the layaway counter at Haskell’s Five and Dime.... Read more
The Tapes That Came Back To Me
The shelf nobody was filling I want to start with a shelf, because that is where all of it started. The Bethany public library sits... Read more
The Honor Stand The Whole Road Kept Full
The morning I went down to fold the table away I was sure the stand was finished. My mother had run it for forty years,... Read more
The Clean Shirt The Barber Gave
The chair I grew up in My name is Nora, and the first chair I ever loved was a barber chair. It is a 1947... Read more
The Letters That Came Home
The sack on the porch For thirty-eight years I mailed a handwritten letter to every graduating senior in our little town, nine hundred and forty... Read more
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