Two Journeys
Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series 1. Spring Spring is here, or spring is still a long ways off. It depends on when you’re reading this. But as someone who grew up in a constant rain (just 39...
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Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series 1. The Stars I hope you’ll excuse me for thinking that the whole space tourism trend was concocted by a-holes. But anything that exclusive—only affordable to...
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Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series 1. Radio Waves When I worked in the fireworks business, some of the trucks had radios, but they only got am stations, and those were all the same: selling...
View ArticleOne Forecast: Fire
Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series o one can talk about summer anymore without also talking about fire. It’s the common denominator. Europe, Africa, Australia, North America—fire, like...
View ArticleTwo Jobs (for Labor Day)
Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series 1. Migration Over the years, I’ve had a fair share of pretty odd jobs. I worked the graveyard shift for a pickle factory, delivered fireworks to parking-lot...
View ArticleTerrain.org Online Auction + Fundraiser Starts December 3!
Get ready for Terrain.org’s biggest event of the year! From December 3rd to 17th, participate in our 3rd Annual Online Auction and Fundraiser—your chance to support the work we do while discovering...
View ArticleThree Gifts, Like I Wish I Were a Magi
Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series 1. As a kid, I never wanted socks for a present. This was a long time ago, of course, before socks had properly evolved. Now there’s Bombas™, and long ones...
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Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series ver the years, I’ve heard some interesting facts: that the Baja Peninsula will one day be an island, that raccoons wash their hands more than we do, that if...
View ArticleBlacksmiths and Wheelbarrows
Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series he Utah legislature is in session again, and higher education is being targeted again (the humanities, especially, are a waste of time), but I can’t start...
View Article8×9: An AWP Los Angeles Off-Site Reading
Join Terrain.org and Writing the Wild for 8×9: An AWP Los Angeles Off-Site Reading. Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7-9 p.m. Audio Graph Beer Co. Los Angles, California 8×9 features nine place-based writers...
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Join Terrain.org at our Booth 323 to meet editors and contributors, plus book signings, swag like stickers and broadsides, t-shirts (a bargain at $10 each!), signed copies of Dear America, and more!...
View ArticleWhat and Who and Why?
Old Roads, New Stories: A Literary Series sked once about my writing process, I said it isn’t always what you’d call deliberate, that often a phrase just comes from who knows where? Or an image does,...
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