58 - Early Frost

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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“I guess I always wanted to be a farmer.” I expected laughter, but instead the silence plunged deeper. “No,” said the farmer. “You don’t. The vermin, the too-small harvest, the too-big loneliness, up before dawn, asleep after dark. The forces of nature and God bending you to their will. Breaking you. And of course, this part of the country is prone to The Early Frost.” --Written by Jacob Duarte Spiel. Support The Wrong Station by subscribing at www.patreon.com/thewrongstation. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:10.6	Was it raining? Overcast? Did he feel the sunlight warming the dark corkscrew hairs on his arms? Was the day
2:20.3	clear enough for him to see across his fields of garlic, wheat, corn? Could he see what took him?
2:27.3	It wasn't unusual for me and my family to not hear from him during the harvest. Most of the year my grandfather
2:34.6	was a kind man with sparkling green eyes and laugh lines an inch deep, but endless hours of hard
2:40.6	physical work will whittle down even the most vivacious person until they can't do anything except
2:45.2	eat, sleep, and stare. From September to November, we'd sometimes go weeks without a word.
2:53.6	We were used to it, But it was a different kind of silence that year. The tension spiked after Thanksgiving
2:59.1	passed without so much as a phone call. My parents tried to hide it from me, but I was 12,
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