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    A New Short-Story Collection Imagines a Texas Town’s Secession

    Jul 01, 2020 4 minutes
    By Michael Schaub

    “THERE WASN’T ANYTHING SPECIAL ABOUT US,” SAYS THE COLLECTIVE narrator of the title story in Matthew Baker’s . “We were just an average town. Porch swings, wading pools, split-rail fences, pumpjacks bobbing for oil on the horizon.” ¶ That’s Plainfield, a fictional small town in Real County, Texas. You could see it as a thinly veiled version of Leakey, the actual county seat of Real County, except for one thing: Plainfieldians don’t bleed red, white, and blue. “We were fed up with our country … We were anti-government, we were anti-corporate, but mostly we were normal people who couldn’t afford to buy an election and had come to

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