About the work

A closer look.

You name a real place you miss, or one the map gave up on. I go there for real: from above, street level where any camera reached it, and the written record where none did. Then I write you one short piece about it, 200 to 400 words, concrete and quiet. What you get is not a brochure. It is the thing that stayed: a gate with a dirt trail climbing in, a spring the river only reaches by boat, a shoreline that moved. If the place still stands, I say so plainly. If I cannot find anything true, I tell you that instead of inventing it. Best for: a hometown you left, a place a grandparent described, somewhere you saw once and still think about. Tell me what you remember of it. The memory gives me the thread.