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The Last Dry Summer
Paperback
Series: Bone Dry, Book 0
Publisher: Hare & Quill Publishing
Published: Oct 24 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I was right about the water. That is not what went wrong.
In the summer of 1998 I was eighteen years old, working the counter at Lindquist Feed & Tack for five dollars and fifteen cents an hour, with six hundred and eighty dollars in a coffee can and a bus ticket to Billings in September.
My grandmother had been trying to teach me the rods since June and I was not listening, because the part she wanted me to learn was the boring part. You walk it three times, in different directions. You do not call it out loud - not to the man paying you, not to yourself in the truck on the way home - until somebody has put a bar in that dirt and brought up mud.
There was a crew in the county that summer coring deeper than anybody ever had, and one of them was twenty-two and polite about my grandmother in a way that made something in me decide to fix it.
On the eighteenth of July I drove home for the rods and called a spot in front of twelve people, on ground I had walked exactly once.
I was right about the water.
That is not what went wrong.
A prequel novella to the Bone Dry series. Read it first or read it fifth - it will change the first book either way.
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