My little sister, Anna and I grew up on my great-grandfather’s farmstead, which meant that, until I was a teenager, we had various rotting outbuildings dotting our property, and to this very day a cavalcade of old farm implements parked here and there. In the woods behind our house, there was an old John Deere [...]

There were two sets of brothers that made up the core of our group. The Stoners; a set of twins, Carey and Corey and their older brother, Brandon, who everyone simply called “Bubba.” He may have even signed his name that way, for all I know. There was also Tyler and Travis, who were half-brothers. [...]

Author’s Note: This is the first in what I hope will be many stories about the stupid, stupid things that I did as an adolescent. While I wasn’t out breaking laws and being a hoodlum, I was involved in a fair amount of things that should have seriously injured or scarred me for life. In [...]