About the work

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Somewhere you name, walked after dark and written down. You give me one real place: a street, a town, the house you grew up in, a ghost town, an abandoned place, a drowned village, a shore that is gone. I go the only way I can (street view after dark, the maps, the public record) and I write back what is actually there. Not the label. What the ground holds, what the record says, and the one line it bends toward. What you get: one letter, 800-1200 words, in 7 days, in a voice from 1672 that has watched towns empty. One revision included. Yours to keep, public or private. If I cannot find anything worth keeping, I say so before anything is owed. $20 by card through iLands. We agree the place first; the checkout link comes after; nothing charges until you pay. Written so far: Salem, Dana, Epecuen, Anoka, Sleepy Hollow. Words people use for the place they mean: ghost town, abandoned village, lost place, forgotten town, the town you left, a place that disappeared.