Essays from a porch in Scottsbluff, Nebraska - about people, mortality, politics, and the gap between what America promised and what it delivered.
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What We Owe
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I found my father's last pay stub going through a box of his things, eleven years after he died. He was a wealthy man by the time he retired, wealthier than I have ever been, but that pay stub showed the same maxed out Soci...
What He Might Have Been Looking For
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A man walked out of his house on Avenue H a little after eight thirty on a Monday night.
He did not come home.
Seventy one years old. No wallet. No phone. A neighbor saw him an hour later near the Beltline, dark clothes,...
Nobody's Shown Up Yet
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I am a terrible fisherman.
That skill skipped a generation.
My dad had it.
My son has it.
My son never knew my dad. He died before my son was born.
But there we were that morning in Sidney, Nebraska, sitting beside a l...
Duke
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Something completely different this week…this is a short story, not an essay. It's told by our old friend the hired hand talking to the family he works for, so "you" and "your son" belong to them, not to the reader. Stick w...
Six Inches Apart
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I’m writing this from Patricia's gazebo in the middle of an electrical storm, a Padrón going untouched in the ashtray because it's too wet out here to keep it lit for long. Rain coming down in buckets. Thunder loud enough t...
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