On the Land, We Shoot Straight

On the Land, We Shoot Straight

Author: Sasha Avice Listening Length: 8h 2m

“I ain’t no expert on what gets a man spooked. But I reckon if you ever wanna talk on it, well then… I reckon I’m all right at listenin’.” Grady’s been running his ranch and farm just fine on his own since his daddy died. But when young Jesse Cole blows up on his porch, Grady hesitates before sending him on. The...

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hat night, Grady lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling, the fire from downstairs burning bright enough to cast bursts of light and shadow on the hallway wall upstairs, the murmur of the lambs settling in for the night drifting up to him.

He brought his arm up and rested his head on his forearm, and found his mind racing even though it’d been a long day, a cold day.

His body was tired in the way it got when you were cold and filthy and then clean and warm, in the way you felt when you’d done your work and it was time to be resting in clean sheets.