In this episode, writers Kevin Canty, Shaun Gant and David Allan Cates have put together puzzles—all made up from the pieces of human relationships. One will tally the cost of family, another the toll of an affair, and the other ignites romance.

Kevin Canty: Where the Money Went (short story)

A man tries to sum up what’s happened to his life, and now has to face just how much it’s cost him.

Shaun Gant: In the Evening (poem)

Insects buzz and love is beckoned.

David Allan Cates: Clean Break (short story)

We find a couple questioning their infidelity. The narrator, however, finds out he has an even bigger problem.

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We spotlight both established and emerging writers of the contemporary West.

A rapping cowboy, a river guiding novelist and a bus-riding Poet Laureate are just a few of the folks we’ll hear from on Words Out West.

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