“Did you want to show Bobby the rock wall that killed your Grandpa?” Mom asked. “There it is. I guess it killed him. He fell asleep and hit it. Was a long time before anyone found him. He died at the hospital. That’s where his car hit. See that newer patch right there?” Dad laughed […]
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I SEE YOU IN THE FAMILY PHOTO ON MY OFFICE WALL. Flanked on your right by three younger siblings, on your left by an older sibling and your parents. You were eleven. Elementary school. Pre-braces. When your teeth were still crooked and gave you that little turtle smile that you wouldn’t mind until a few
WE IMAGINED A CAMP. Eight hundred to twelve hundred years ago, it would have been on the flat plain behind the cliffs above us. We dug. Fifteen minutes in my fingers found an arrowhead lodged sideways under eight inches of damp earth. Twenty minutes later, Slade found another. The Edwards arrow point he spotted