Ellis McHale

 A company out of Tulsa has its eye on 163 acres along Blue Creek Lake.The families of Lawhoma Hills held that ground long before anyone wrote it down. They're foxes and crows and bears, entirely themselves, and they've built a town on it. A barbershop, a post office, a farmers market on Saturday mornings, and a grandmother named Yaya keeping watch behind her pink door.Inside her journals, Yaya writes it all down. The seasons. The neighbors. The dinner tables that keep growing extra chairs. Skating rink nights and harvest festivals and recitals. The creeks that argue with drought and sometimes lose.Then the survey markers go up, and the valley learns what it will cost to ...