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By Design

On PurposeEverything around you was decided by somebody.24 episodes · 2h 32m

Dark

Dead AirLate night on a small station, and the request line is open.5 episodes · 2h 11m Sold As IsAn appraiser prices everything three ways. None of the three is what it was worth to the dead.6 books · 32h 35m of listening

Known By Heart

What The Job IsA working interview show.12 episodes · 5h 0m

Paper & Law

Check StationA check station was a table where neighbors looked at what you brought. Now it's a phone call.5 books · 24h 37m of listening Low WaterFirst in time, first in right — and the oldest right on the Wilder sits at the bottom of it.5 books · 25h 9m of listening Service ConnectedService connected is a finding, not a description. Somebody in Des Moines decides it, on paper.5 books · 25h 1m of listening The Country CourtAdverse possession: a fence can beat your deed. Ash County has one lawyer you can hire.5 books · 25h 29m of listening The Kinship ReportA kinship report is a document proving nobody is standing in front of you. That is the job.5 books · 24h 42m of listening

Quiet Work

Becoming AvionHe came home to sell the house. The field behind it is a door the town agreed to forget.1 book · 7h 7m of listening DaytimerA daytimer is a station the government switches off at sunset. Half the county goes with it.5 books · 24h 46m of listening Intelligent DisobedienceA guide dog is trained to refuse you. This is the school where that gets taught, and graded.5 books · 26h 32m of listening Neck ResetA neck reset takes the neck off. The neck was never the problem; it is the only end you can reach.5 books · 23h 8m of listening RootstockAn apple never comes true from seed. Every named variety is one tree copied by hand ever since.5 books · 25h 5m of listening The Farm TeamMakeup: the one line on a scouting form that is a word, where every other line is a number.6 books · 28h 37m of listening The Ride-AlongSome jobs you only get to see if you do them.1 episode · 28 min The RouteVerna Tolliver carries the mail on Rural Route Two, and she knows more about the people out here than anybody alive — not because she asks, and not because she 24 episodes · 2h 33m The Larkspur VetEvery ranch has a card. The herd on the front, the family on the back. The back is the heavy side.6 books · 30h 8m of listening The Mail RunThe cheap path opens on the sun's schedule and shuts on it. The mail is never late anyway.6 books · 30h 24m of listening

The Swap Shop

The Swap ShopSunday morning in Tallow, Alabama.4 episodes · 1h 33m

Uncredited

Nobody You KnowTrue stories about the people whose work you touch every day and whose names you have never once said out loud.23 episodes · 2h 8m

Under Pressure

Cause and OriginThe ignition source is what got hot. The first fuel is what was there to catch. Not the same thing.5 books · 27h 2m of listening Probable CauseThe company under investigation sits at the table by right. The word for that is party.5 books · 25h 23m of listening UpboundA gauge at Memphis decides how much freight a boat may carry. Nobody gets to argue with it.5 books · 23h 22m of listening Signal TraceSeventeen Cold War listening doctrines. Each book spends one, and names the next.4 books · 29h 16m of listening Deep SalvageIn admiralty you sue the ship herself. Finding a wreck first buys you nothing at all.6 books · 36h 54m of listening The Harbormaster MysteriesPassive sound gives you a bearing, never a range. Kettle Harbor's harbormaster has no badge.6 books · 36h 39m of listening GridworkOn a control-room board, green means dead. Get that backwards and a man puts his hands on it.5 books · 28h 37m of listening The Long ColdWe don't make two: a rescue may not become a second casualty. That rule has cost this county a boy.6 books · 28h 35m of listening