My Father Brought A Locksmith To Sell My Ranch

By noon the sun was out, thin and mean.

I spent the rest of the day fixing a section of north fence where one post had heaved crooked from the freeze. My hands went numb twice. I smashed my thumb with the post driver once and called myself a few names my mother wouldn’t have liked.

At some point I realized I hadn’t checked my phone in nearly three hours.continue reading …