Iowa Readers: A Frontier Hearing Under Drought (Ep. 4)

A claim-office hearing is supposed to settle whose map is law, but the town well still speaks a stranger's name and silver ford-serpents thrash in the shallows ten miles out. Episode 4 of Boundwater puts every word on trial in a drought-bleached town. A free fantasy-western story that Iowa readers can enjoy after a long day. Find the episode, and links back to the earlier ones, in the Home Page field.