This Land

Sometime on June 25, 2007, 25-year-old Sara Hulbert went to Nashville’s seedy Cowan Street with a pair of guys named Lee and Hollywood. The three scored some crack and smoked it. Then an argument broke out about divvying up what was left. Sara got annoyed and left. Lee figured she…

It started with just a few tremors. Then a few more. Then it seemed like a swarm, each one following thick and fast on the last. The faultlines were clear. Public panic ensued. Seismologists and geophysicists raced to the scene. I’m not talking about the earthquake swarm that hit Oklahoma,…

On a recent Tuesday morning, around 36 8-year-olds and I were watching a bright yellow longhorn cowfish bob around its tank at the Oklahoma Aquarium when the manus deus descended from above. Actually it looked less like the hand of God than the hand of man: it had neatly trimmed…