In the Iowa countryside, the corn keeps growing. People keep working. And some things are easier left unsaid.
Corn Sweat is a collection of twelve short stories and ten interwoven vignettes exploring contemporary rural life across the fields, gravel roads, river bottoms, small towns, bars, farms, and forgotten corners of Iowa and the Great Plains.
These are stories about ordinary people carrying things they rarely know how to say aloud.
Working men measure their lives in hours on the job and beers after quitting time. Friends drive country roads rather than admit they are struggling. Marriages buckle beneath loneliness, resentment, infidelity, and words that arrive too late, or never arrive at all. Childhood cruelty leaves marks that survive into adulthood. Old stories linger in the woods and cornfields. Modern technology brings new dangers into places that can otherwise seem untouched by time. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /