My eyes furtively glance at the rearview mirror, checking for cops, as the family car edges close to forty-five miles per hour, cruising west on South Dakota Highway 44. This particular stretch of asphalt is post-apocalyptic empty and flanked on both sides by green and yellow mixed grasses, as the road cuts through portions of […]
I’m simultaneously trying to keep a blanket wrapped around me and keep an insipid can of Bud Light wedged between my chattering knees, as heavy gusts of wind whip across the South Dakota Badlands. Despite this being an otherwise scorcher of a summer, the weather at night in the national park is positively arctic. The […]
Shane Crash lies before me in a hospital bed, his naturally lithe frame slightly bloated from the steroid injections he has been taking for recently diagnosed Crohn’s disease. Despite the intense pain of the inflammation and the chemical stupor of morphine, Shane is in good spirits. Just this morning, I awoke to find his most […]