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Newsletter · By Mike Fitzgerald · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
12
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Sep 28, 2026
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Jul 17, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Evening Light (opens the original)

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    Maybe it’s less about the why. That’s what kept going through my head as I sat in a foldout camp chair alone where the cattle trough, completely solar powered, which sits directly behind me, and even though there wouldn’t be an angus steer on this property for another few weeks, and even though winter had barely loosened its grip on this place no more than two weeks prior to my arrival, you could still smell last years’ herd if the wind caught your nose from the right angle. The why is the pursu

  2. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    Salmon Milk (opens the original)

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    There’s no mistaking what is happening downriver roughly eighty yards or so from my current position, as one rod fit for fighting yellowfin tuna begins to arc toward the faster water downstream as a salmon goes completely batshit crazy, which normally wouldn’t be anything to regard as peculiar when a chinook salmon is hooked – they always go nuts, putting deep bends in rods – but this fish has the distinct mannerism of “batshit crazy” that is a telltale sign of being snagged in the side, or mayb

  3. Issue · Sep 5, 2026

    Tiny Tales (opens the original)

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    Picture a perfect sphere of wild. Nothing protruding through what is before your eyes. Nothing at all. Only the garbling babble of water over rock and a sense of belonging to the moment in which you’ve placed yourself in. There’s a lyric somewhere out there in the world that claims that the only place that you and I will ever find perfect is in the dictionary under “P”, and maybe that’s true, but while things in life tend to make landfall like a category five hurricane, the profound experience o

  4. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    Crowe (opens the original)

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    “You have got to be kidding me” were perhaps the first words that were tossed through my mind as I looked out at the thermometer and saw that the temperature had dipped into the single digits, which explained why I had begun to regret packing pants. It was August, but that didn’t matter anymore. It was cold, and it was August. Things had, mostly, fallen apart. Nothing ever feels completely alright, even in the realm of the unrelated, so hiding out for a couple days seemed like the right thing to

  5. Issue · Aug 17, 2026

    Fenced In (opens the original)

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    Let’s say that August has a soundtrack, the original name for what we all now call a playlist. While it is 10:18am on August 14 which is to say that August is about halfway done, it has indeed been most difficult not to find parallels in how this month has gone and link song within it. It’s been a Ben Gibbard kind of month. A Queens Of The Stone Age sort of month. Things have been accomplished, and perhaps the biggest one is finishing the fence around the perimeter of the backyard, though not th

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