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Title: CoW Ep. 492: Stillwater
Post by: Languorous Lass on April 19, 2022, 05:00:49 AM

Cast of Wonders 492: Stillwater (https://www.castofwonders.org/2022/04/cast-of-wonders-492-stillwater/)

• Author: Valerie Kemp (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/valerie-kemp/)
• Narrator: Adam Pracht (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/adam-pracht/)
• Host: Katherine Inskip (https://www.castofwonders.org/people/katherine-inskip-2/)
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/jeremy-carter/)

"Stillwater" was previously published in the anthology Defy the Dark (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/defy-the-dark-saundra-mitchellaprilynne-pikecarrie-ryanrachel-hawkinssarah-rees-brennantessa-grattonchristine-johnsonvalerie-kempmalinda-lo?variant=32207561981986), Harper Teen, July 2013.

Click here to listen to Episode 492 (http://traffic.libsyn.com/castofwonders/Wonders492.mp3)

Nothing ever changes in Stillwater. Nothing. I get up every morning at the crack of dawn, in the blazing heat, and drive our pick-up all over, delivering eggs and milk and whatever else my daddy feels like selling, to the good people of Stillwater, population 413.

I work my way in a circle from the edge of town, where we live, to the center. I endure all the little old ladies who like to pinch my cheek when they tell me, “Why Pruitt Reese, you are becoming more like your daddy every day!” Like that’s a good thing.

Tags:   Adam Pracht, American SF, escape, families, feuds, forgetting, Jeremy Carter, Katherine Inskip, leap of faith, lost time, memories, mystery, prejudice, romance, rural SF, Valerie Kemp, young adult fiction