Archive - David Boles: Prairie Voice

The Courthouse on the Square

The ground is the argument.

Oct 2 • David Boles

September 2026

Two Thousand, Three Hundred, One

Worth the electricity

Sep 27 • David Boles

Everything Weighs More Than It Says

Read the story the way a ledger reads

Sep 20 • David Boles

The Prairie Doesn’t Swear

Yea, yea; Nay, nay.

Sep 15 • David Boles

The Pharmacy in North Loup

Measuring the distance

Sep 13 • David Boles

The Rug at the Bethany Branch

Almost no one pays

Sep 8 • David Boles

One man with a borrowed name

Sep 2 • David Boles

August 2026

The Answer Took Forty-Four Years

Nothing is earned

Aug 27 • David Boles

The Tallest Object in the Field

From the ground up

Aug 21 • David Boles

The High-Water Mark on Main Street

Away from the invented city

Aug 16 • David Boles

The Last Colonels

Sold live by the same firm

Aug 13 • David Boles

The Registrar’s Window

Rules We Write for Other People

Aug 10 • David Boles

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