— Originally from southwestern Idaho, Lauren Consuelo Tussing earned an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University. You can find Lauren on Twitter at @LaurenConsuelo.
Vernon
Perhaps, from my youth, the coal burning at Vernon will give me cancer. Perhaps not. Though today, not far from there, I woke to the rain burning the road and also the chickens in their coop, on this little farm. More honestly, I woke to something screaming in the woods, from the rain, and saw the road, the chickens’ yellow and steam through…