Backroads & Ghosts

Essays from the Edges of America

The Dust Settles, But I Don’t

March 28, 2025

This is the first in what I hope will be a long walk together through the edges of myth, the silence of old barns, and the hunger in roadside diners. These are the essays I never had time to write—until now.

On Folk Magic and Memory

Coming soon

Something stirs in the Appalachian hollers, and I think it remembers me. Or maybe it never forgot...