Horse Teeth and Heartbreak
Elbow deep inside the jaws of a stallion, Edye Lucas closes her eyes as her fingers explore a landscape of slivered
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Wilber Glasby
Wilber Glasby knows some folks think he’s a hoarder, but he sees cash value in his eight-acre junk-strewn kingdom in
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Lee Lyles
Lee Lyles of Sulphur, Oklahoma, forged a love for heavy metal as a kid and blazed a farrier career that earned him an
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Kaylin Haught
Kaylin Haught is an Oklahoma poet. She lives in Grove, in a house older than the state that's abbreviated on her mail.
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ORIGINAL OKIE: Officer Kaiser
Don't let Officer Kaiser's smile fool you. This Belgian Malinois is known on the Idabel Police Department as "the force
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Opal Clark Moss
Opal Clark Moss, 101, grew up at the Sand Springs Children’s Home and published her first book at age 76. Last year,
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Letter From: China
Mr. Lee and I stop to stare at jars of pickled vipers. The Sunday market crowd in old Kaili snakes a detour around the
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The Burning Bush
In the aftermath of the Creek County fires—during another triple-digit stretch in an already parched Oklahoma—This
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The Last of Kenton
I have been trying to tell the story of Kenton, the westernmost town in Oklahoma, since last November, when I
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Holy Crap
Shit happens every day. At least, it should. When it doesn’t, there’s a Seventh-Day Adventist in southeastern
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Gypsies, Tramps, and Me: Letter from India
At the end of a dusty day, we turned from the smooth comfort of good pavement and paused beneath a lone shade tree in
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Letter from Bhutan
It’s not every day you find a four-foot penis painted on a house. When was the last time you stopped by a restaurant
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Just as I Was: Confessions of a Fallen Southern Baptist
I sprang from a deep well of Southern Baptist blood—crimson, of course. One of my most frightful childhood memories
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Westward Whoa: Gay Cowpokes Saddle Up to Teach an Old Sport New Tricks
I’m sitting in the stands at the Sooner State Stampede amidst the smell of grain-fed cow manure and the clink-clank
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