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 Booth She Prayed In
The booth in the front corner of my diner faced east, and that was the only reason I ever rented this building. Maribeth Aldous told… Read more
The Choirmaster Who Would Not Be Silenced
Preston Yancy stood at the pulpit of Mount Zion Country Church holding my microphone by the cord like it was a dead snake, and he… Read more
The Recipe Tin They Called Junk
Deanna Wick picked up my mother’s recipe tin with two fingers, like it might leave a mark on her, and set it down on the… Read more
The Communion Set a Stranger Returned
We were on the third verse of “Blessed Assurance” when the back doors of Harmony Grove Missionary Baptist Church opened and a man nobody knew… Read more
The Day the Speaker Went Silent
The bluetooth speaker died on the sixth note of Taps, right in the middle of the phrase every soldier carries in his bones, and for… Read more