"Six Harvests in Lea, Texas" is the story of Wilder Mayer, a young man returning to the rural panhandle town of Lea to take over the family farm after his stepfather's death. Lea is a strange place, from the mysterious old ruined church to the charismatic new schoolteacher that Wild wouldn't mind marrying, and eventually to their witchy daughter, Iscah, who might be a prophet. Set at the height of the Dust Bowl and the Depression, Six Harvests follows Wild, his ever-growing family, and the farmers of Lea as they struggle to survive both the tragedies befalling America and the tragedies of their own small town.

Sam Starbuck is a writer, nonprofit researcher, and semi-professional Cat Dad living and working in Chicago.