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Road to Emmaus
After his funeral, which of the elevenopted to find and mend their rotten netsand fish? And what made them set, again,the clock to three years earlier, before all betswere...
The Grudge
When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the...
Visiting Parkers Prairie
“Time lost its absolute character . . .” –Einstein The Wilsons lived across the street, and when kids knocked, he gave us apples after school. Years later we read she died of...
The Summer of 1883
Oh, they chose, all right. This is the New World: no guarantee, but opportunity. In one summer three crops, like beautiful daughters, have eloped with death’s sons. One with...
Main Street, Parkers Prairie (Later Old Town)
They have waited all their lives for train tracks to lace them to other towns, and now the word comes down. The Soo Line will build tracks and a...
