(Names have been changed)A few days after Easter last year, Shane and I took a walk and he told me about his cousin. The kid was ten years old. His dad was an American missionary who worked on planes. They lived in a c…

The tree ate the dirt and so did the worm, but the saw came along and the whole place burned. I walked into the swamp after the paving of streets. I stepped up to the mic to the thumping of beats. I felt your eyes burn a…