Locust House Variations, A Weekly Fiction Column by Adam Gnade, “Excerpt from the novel Float Me Away, Floodwaters”
Home on the farm. Quiet days while the rain keeps coming. The fields in the lowlands flood until taking the highway to the city is like driving on a land-bridge over a dead ocean. The summer corn crop is ruined. Fields are left unplanted. The Missouri River keeps rising. It crests the banks at the MORE…