"Velocity" published by The Collapsar

I'm pleased to share that my essay "Velocity" has been published by The Collapsar. (Thanks to editors Nate Knapp and James Brubaker for giving this piece a home!)

Here's the opening of the essay. To read the rest, please hop on over to The Collapsar website.

Somewhere west of the Pennsylvania border but east of Columbus, the tree-dense slopes on either side of the highway started to ease themselves down to the ground. It was subtle enough that I didn’t notice it at first, but eventually the mountains shrunk to hills shrunk to fields, the way icebergs of plowed snow in parking lots melt and melt in the spring, until one day there’s nothing but a puddle where once stood a dirty white mound. Out on the highway, maybe an hour from Columbus, the treetop vistas and the cradling valleys gave way to farmland flat as paper.

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