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Everything in This Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories

Everything In This Country Must

By Colum McCann

December/ January 2021

Originally published in

April / May 1999

September 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment

A Short Story by Colum McCann It was a summer flood when our draft horse was caught in the river and the river smashed against stones. The sound of it to me was like the turning of locks. It was silage time and the water smelled of grass. The draft horse, Father’s favorite, had stepped in the river for a sniff maybe and she was caught, couldn’t move, her foreleg trapped … [Read more...] about Everything In This Country Must

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