Tag: Iowa
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Burning Field
Justin Lamberio went to a protest. Councilman Devereux is smiling, watching him get arrested. Now his attorney, Frank Delgado is worried.
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The Black Silk
A black silk cloth. Wade’s cards. Forty years folded away in an attic box. Deanna brings them down on a Saturday morning and asks her father what’s inside.
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Nine of Spades
A card reading. A dead cigar. And a thirteen-year-old boy who didn’t believe in any of it — until Uncle Wade folded the silk and never touched the cards again.
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Spud, Hanover, Tweed, and Spiner: Tri-Cities Iowa
Floyd Patterson lost the dairy. Lost the land. Lost about eight years to the wrong people. Now he sits in a booth at Janice’s diner, nursing coffee and an unlit cigarette, glaring at anybody who tells him to put a sock in it. Some towns hold onto their people. Some people hold onto their towns.…