Canyon Series
The Bones
Story Three of the Canyon Series. The shop owner sorted her fossils by completeness and priced them by quality. She'd been grading burial speed for twenty-two years. Her grandmother called it a cabinet of last moments.
Canyon Series
Welcome to the Canyon Series — a three-part narrative fiction series grounded in peer-reviewed geologic science. A multi-generational Native American family runs a canyon rock shop and river tours. Through decades of careful observation — their ledger and map — they discover evidence of rapid, catastrophic burial in the petrified wood they sell every day. These stories explore geology, deep time, and creation through the eyes of people who live on the rock. Start with Story One: The Shop
Canyon Series
The Wash
Story Two of the Canyon Series. The monsoon came early. The wash demonstrated a process the grandmother always knew. What nobody has modeled is how big the water had to be.
Canyon Series
The Shop
Story One of the Canyon Series. Clara had a ledger, a map, and twenty-two years of inventory. Her daughter came home with the vocabulary. The data was already on the wall.