Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

Shopping for Bread

The store at the lost four corners has a pump, diesel side to the left, and a regular one on the right, if your tank opens on the drivers side…

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My Choice

Earth mover, yurt maker, shaman, volunteer…

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The Yurt Platform

As I’ve said, water pours out of these hills, & you’re either aligned with it, or it’s going to ruin your plans…

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Julie’s Machine

The machine knocked it down faster than I could have, with my nail puller…

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Phantom Dentist

We stood, truck to truck, mine blue, his red, the conversation stuck somewhere between past and present, as he leaned on his and I on mine, scuffling gravel with workman's boots, in the Bristol Beverage Center parking lot, to make up for lost time…

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Wilderness Gates

As spiritual beings living a physical life, I find what helps purge mass media messaging best, is actual mud…

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Unrehearsed Ritual

I did pretty much let go, thinking that "anyone in particular" was going to agree with me…

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Barefoot

I immediately wished to go barefoot…

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Rule of Thaw

It decided to snow 2 feet up here so I turned to paperwork today…

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The Pallet Dump

The map was etched in my mind, or the key landmarks anyway, to get me to the pallet dump to find free materials for my new project: a rack for my truck, to hold rakes, shovels and anything with a long handle…

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Two Robins

I wake early maybe 5, as the eastern light begins to lift across the wilderness slopes of my mountain home…

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The Push

Since the mattress debacle I've developed a sixth sense around when something is going to fall out of the truck bed and I've stepped up my game with rope…

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Post and Beam

"When are you going to build that barn, dad?" she said…

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Hancock Three Corners

Here at the main intersection of town where the east/west road makes a "T" with the north/south road, one abandoned building draws little to no attention…

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Snow Machine

It won't be long now before the unhinging of green chaos in every hill & hollow…

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Hoosiers for Sale

It won't be long now before the unhinging of green chaos in every hill & hollow…

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