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“Consuming Fire”
First Published 2018 in Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writing
“I’m surprised when I walk out of the video store and it’s raining ash. So complete is the apparent lack of concern among the Montanans, you’d never guess that just five miles outside of town two thousand acres of land are burning.”
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“Images of The Invisible”
First Published 2014 in The Cresset
“In America we have always been good at taking Jesus out of context and refashioning him in our own image. Shortly after the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson did it with scissors..”
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“Six Feet From The Sun”
First Published 2013 in The Common
Republished 2014 in The Good Men Project
“When you’re a carpenter’s son there are things you don’t tell your mother”
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Ryan Rickrode 