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Dumb-Ass Acres 9

Blessed With Triple Ds: A Dispatch from Dumb-Ass Acres

This is a description of small-town life and the help you can expect to receive from people not conditioned to give strangers the finger.
Jason Peters
December 18, 2019

Dying Properly—like a Dumb Ass (A Dispatch)

Little do I know that in a few days I will have died properly: by explosion.

Ecce Hortus: A Dispatch from Dumb-Ass Acres

Put in a garden and watch it come to life.

The Winter of our Disconchickentent: A Dispatch

Nature stepped in in her wonted way and took complete control.

Good Night, Sweet Babe Magnet

It's as if two men are talking fondly about a woman both of them were once married to.
Jason Peters
August 23, 2017

And Then Came the Chickens, Part Two: A Dispatch from Dumb-Ass Acres

“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.
Jason Peters
August 15, 2017

And Then Came The Chickens—After the Bobcat: A Dispatch

Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.
Jason Peters
June 21, 2017

Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch

Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.
Jason Peters
November 12, 2014