Part I: The Midwife of Pocahontas County The radiator in the corner of the clinic hissed, a rhythmic, metallic gasp that did nothing to take the bite out of the...
Chapter I: The Meeting at the Edge of the World The rain along the southern Oregon coast does not fall so much as it suspends itself in the air, a...
The Burrito and the Bloodline The exact moment the old world ended and the new one began, Mike Davis was sitting in the cab of his Peterbilt outside Elco, Nevada,...
Part I: The Anomalies of Renfield The clinical chart for Tyler Allen was, on the surface, entirely unremarkable. It was a standard manila folder, slightly frayed at the edges from...
The rain in the late autumn of 2014 didn’t fall so much as it hung in the air, a cold, gray mist that blurred the jagged treeline of the Missouri...
Part I: The Storage Unit (Eureka, 2003) The padlock on Unit 412 didn’t want to give up its secret. Greg Allen worked the WD-40 into the rusted cylinder, his sixty-four-year-old...
Chapter 1: The Cold Trail The rain in the Pacific Northwest does not merely fall; it possesses the landscape, dissolving the boundaries between earth, air, and history. For twenty-four years,...
Shadow and Sap: The Two Worlds of Linda Greenwell The needles of the western white pine didn’t crunch beneath Linda Greenwell’s boots; they compressed, yielding to her weight with a...
The Piney Creek Drainage The heater in the ’82 Ford ambulance was blowing lukewarm air, doing little to cut the chill that had settled into the valleys of Stone County,...
The Bitterroot Anomaly The rain in western Montana does not fall so much as it occupies the air, a cold, gray weight that hangs over the pines and turns the...