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6 Jun 2024 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Though they are unable to reach Kidwell Monday, he is on premises Tuesday for what feels like, many of them agree, the most productive day since they’ve arrived at Otherwise. In some sort of zone ever since they returned from Stokely, in fa...
6 Jun 2024 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Within fifteen minutes, they are rolling down the long, diagonal hill into Stokely, gently curving at the bottom where it runs into the state route. Just past the intersection, in the row of buildings on the left, Fairlawn Diner sits at the end, H.L...
5 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“I don’t know…it’s out in the middle of nowhere,” Clay’s telling whomever he’s speaking to on the phone, feet propped on a knotted pine coffee table in the main house’s library, “the closest town? I forget, it’s like…Spinning Rock or some shit. Aren...
25 May 2024 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“So you’re in with the ones starting that school back up, eh?” the old man says to them, then nods before they’ve even responded, “okay, we heard they was doin’ somethin with that property, but we didn’t know what.” After cresting one final steep hi...
19 May 2024 2 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Okay, so what kind of tree is that?” Clay challenges, pointing to a gnarled specimen sticking up just a few feet from the creek’s middle. “Those are what’s known as bald cypress trees,” Tom explains, without breaking stride in his furious...
17 May 2024 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Have you invited your parents out here?” Emily asks Kay, as they crunch their way through this burnt orange colored carpet of needles, “like, for one of these upcoming tours, maybe?” Harry hasn’t explicitly stated who is and isn’t permitted...
12 May 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Distracted by this pond, Jeremy and company have gotten no further than skirting it. They approached from the left side, nearest the woods, but then rounded the top and have come back around down the opposite side. He wouldn’t consider hims...
10 May 2024 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Sunday morning brings with it more unrelenting gloom, which is somewhat unusual for this state, this time of the year. They’re all still waiting for an Indian Summer that hasn’t yet materialized. Prompted by Emily’s continued sleepless hyst...
5 May 2024 7 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey
Sorting out who will sleep where is a matter decided with surprisingly little animosity. Though the artists mostly prefer solitude to begin with, this notion of separate living quarters, with or without toilets — the newly constructed cabin...
29 Mar 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Jeremy doesn’t even think to tell Ben and Lois about his arrival, until he has joined them at Otherwise. Of course, he may have correctly deduced that Emily would, right away. But Ben supposes that his son has always had a project-oriented mind, and...
