Community stories.
Stories about neighbors, small towns and strangers who show up.
The Firefighter Who Saved My Father
My father made me drive him to the fire department supper even though his hip was bad that week, even though I told him three... Read more
The Mail Carrier Who Kept A Promise
My husband Dewitt has been gone six years now, and in all that time, there has not been one single weekday morning when I did... Read more
The Girl Who Kept Bringing Dinner
My wife Louise had been gone a year when a girl I never met started leaving me dinner every Sunday, and for eleven weeks she... Read more
The Boy Who Kept My Yard Mowed
My name is Doris, and I am seventy eight years old, and until this spring I would have told you the most useful thing I... Read more
The Diner the Town Refused to Lose
The certified letter came on a Tuesday, which should have told me something right there, because Tuesdays in Larkspur, Texas are for church committee meetings... Read more
The Seat at the Head Table
For forty-one years I cut hair in the front room of my house on Sorrel Street, in a town in central Nebraska so small the... Read more
The Coach Who Never Gave Up
The first time I met Marcus Dell, he told me to go to hell. He was fourteen, a freshman, standing in the doorway of my... Read more
The Morning His Town Brought In His Harvest
The drought broke me before it broke the wheat. I want to start there, because most people who knew me back then would have said... Read more
The Headstone The Whole Town Bought
The grave had been bare for eleven months when I finally admitted to myself that it might stay that way. I want to be honest... Read more
The Coach Who Never Missed a Season
My wife Joyce sat in the third row of the bleachers for thirty-one springs, and I promised her that the day she stopped coming, I’d... Read more
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