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Haying Seasons by Bill Conlogue
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Haying seasons by Bill Conlogue

My father didn’t teach me how to drive a tractor, because, I suppose, he assumed that I knew. As a...
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Cloud of Locusts by Michael Loyd Gray
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Cloud of Locusts by Michael Loyd Gray

I was only fifteen when we lost our farm and had to move into town. All the stock and equipment...
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Oyster World by Cayla Garman
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Oyster World by Cayla Garman

Oyster World You massacred those oysters when we were girls, wrenched them from the river mud despite my pleas that...
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What We've Lost by Bill Smoot
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What We’ve Lost by Bill Smoot

Why do certain days lie dormant in our memories, ready to arise so vividly that we live them again, no...
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The Birth by Pearl Benjamin
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The Birth by Pearl Benjamin

“The Birth” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton. Learn more about...
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dirty laundry by billie pritchett
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Dirty Laundry by Billie Pritchett

My mother bought clothes to make herself feel good. She imagined herself being invited to a dinner party at a house...
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poems by James Lowell
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The Last Farm Stand and Other Poems by James Lowell

The Last Farm Stand She comes laden across the bay, and I am halfway down the hill to the ferry...
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Milking Cows and Throwing Curves by Randy Hisner
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Milking Cows and Throwing Curves by Randy Hisner

“Milking Cows and Throwing Curves” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton....
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South of 18 by Douglas German
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South of 18 by Doulgas K. German

The way I met Calhoun, I was sitting in the bar, the only bar we have in town. At the...
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These Stone Walls by Aine Greaney
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These Stone Walls by Áine Greaney

I used to tell myself that it was the August heat that drew me away from that tarmacadam road and into the...
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Bucolia by Danielle Barr
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Bucolia by Danielle Barr

“Bucolia” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton. Learn more about the...
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Watching the Combines Daril Bentley
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Watching the Combines and Other Poems by Daril Bentley

Darkroom The past would seem to exist beneath a red light behind a door seldom opened save to revisit photographs...
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