Stories tagged “corn”
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The Love Of The Crime Series - The Old Love
I was only an hour into fixing the old farm when an old voice came from the corn field, a once calming voice. “Well now I thought if there was one person who I thought that wouldn’t come back it was you Mike.” I was almost about to f...
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The Corn Maze
Have you ever been in a corn maze? A corn maze, for those of you that don’t know, is a maze cut out of a corn field. As if you couldn’t get lost in a corn field anyway, someone decided to make it even more difficult. You walk into the cut d...
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Corn shell.
But that was not meant to be. My dreams take me to a corn field, nary a baseball player in sight. As I walk through the endless green walls, I feel as though I am being watched. After a few more steps, I start noticing that the stalks are all leaning t...
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Knee high
Harlan and the other farmers of the co-op marveled at how quickly it grew. Corn, once sacred to Native Americans, now a source for so much: feed for livestock, ethanol for cars, high-fructose corn syrup for damn near everything. Once that corn seed was...
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Harvest
She was heading north on the unlined country road. A cold rain storm was coming out of the west and she was a good four miles from the safety of her driveway. She didn’t ride her bike in November very often- when skies grew dark soon after the fi...