Every Year He Planted Sunflowers for His Twin Sister—Until One Morning, One Flower Held a Small White Box

and checked the road running past the fence line. A distant cousin who lived nearby, Vince, spent the entire night out there with the rest of us, flashlight sweeping the dark water. After heavy rain, that pond fed into a narrow runoff channel past the reeds, which emptied eventually into a drainage culvert running beneath the road. The deputies eventually continue reading …