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Natural Neighbors
Maps generally depict the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles as hundreds of miles apart, and their residents would have you believe it were thousands, but the facts on the ground establish that the two cities are adjacent. They are nearly standing in the same space. There is a secret passage that will get [...]
White Divide
Sam looked out that first morning of the water-year, collected his lunch sack, and walked down the back steps, inhaling the strange mix of dust and chemicals and humidity; it was foreign. It was invigorating to breathe again. Broad and shallow puddles appeared everywhere, and all the roads were covered with a sheen of wet [...]
Into the Sink
There are few pleasures more terrible than the waking of the Sink on a summer morning. The air has warmth that seems to whisper of the heat of the day, yet comforts as it haunts. The light of roads, the farms, the combines, and the trucks are scattered over the flat expanse like boats on [...]