Historical fiction English
Still Dry
Peshtigo, October 1871. Thirty-three feet down and still dry. Sunday is coming.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin, the first week of October 1871: Tollef Haugen, a seventy-one-year-old Norwegian well digger, is sinking a well by hand for his daughter's family in the Lower Sugar Bush, and every morning he tells us the depth, and every morning it is dry. He has until Sunday, October 8, to strike water and prove he came to give and not to be kept.
5 episodes 37 min
Free. No account. 8 minutes.
Episodes
- 1Thirty-One Feet, DryEpisode 1 7:56 Free
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Sci-fi 4 episodes
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Thriller 5 episodes
2 a.m. A call from a dead man’s line, and a whisper with plans for a girl.
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Literary 4 episodes
The bell is ringing from a signal box bulldozed seventeen years ago. In her father’s rhythm.
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Horror 5 episodes
Dawn: her forty hives are draped in mourning. Somebody has told the bees a lie she can’t take back.
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Thriller 5 episodes
The overnight coach to Glasgow. Her little brother boards with a rucksack and won’t look at her.
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Horror 5 episodes
Something is knocking at the byre door, and every hawthorn on the road is in blossom. In October.
Episode 1 free · 7 min
