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Weekly Contest #81
The Big House wasn’t big at all, that’s just what they called it. Burl and his mother lived there on her farm which also had a red barn, two mules, four cows, a smokehouse, and an old ramshackle farmhouse where Nora Jo lived with her parents and younger sister. About a quarter mile down the dirt road behind the Big House, Nora Jo walked, almost skipped, from the farmhouse toward the Big House. She needed to ask Burl a question. &nbs...
Weekly Contest #80
Iberville Parish, Louisiana 1905 The steam-powered engine rumbled loudly as a young farmhand raked sugar cane from a plantation railcar onto the cane carrier feeder outside a sugar mill. The new machine, a back-saver called Walsh’s Rake, was the latest improvement on the sugar cane farms in Iberville Parish. “Hello!” Dutch, a high school senior, shouted to be heard over the engine noise. The farmhand gave a quick nod in Dutch’s direction, not wanting to take his eyes off the moving rake in case it got hung up or detached from the cables...
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