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Dave Dunbar has lived in Maryville, Missouri since the early 1980s. He moved to the town soon after the events surrounding the death of Ken Rex McElroy occurred and has raised a son and daughter as a single father. He is currently employed as a cable television technician in Kansas City. The following interview was conducted in Dunbar’s home.
Through the kitchen window, no person or beast peered back, so he went outside. The air was still and close, a proper day to die. At first, he knew. Dementia had tapped him on his shoulder not long after his Belva died. She had always handled everything about their modest affairs: the bills, checkbook, insurance, groceries. He was just making a shit mess of it all. He had eve...
Winter came a little early to my part of Canada this year. Seeing veterans and those honouring them shivering in the snow on November 11 really brought that home, although the cold and snowy weather had started some days before.
Looking back though, over the course of sixty years, there have been times when snow was on the ground at Hallowe’en, or it was cold enough th...
The following is an extract from Andy Offer’s memoir It Wasn’t Meant to be Like This – the unintended but entirely predictable consequences of keeping sheep.
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Despite some tric...
The funeral will be on Thursday, May 6th. Perfect timing. Before the haying started, but after the corn was planted. Dad would have liked that, not interrupting the fieldwork. I think he planned it that afternoon as we drove home from the city. Returning from the specialists, who used blood tests and CAT scans to confirm his country doctor’s suspicions. But by then, the jaund...