“A Friendly Harvest”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Winter, 2008
Out on the prairie between Malta and Saco, halfway between the Missouri River and the Canadian border, out where the hot water bubbles from the ground, a man and his preacher bent over a horseshoe pit and had a discussion.
The preacher maintained his shoe had fallen close enough to the pin to score a point. His opponent disagreed, but only briefly.
“Okay,” he conceded. “We’ll go with the Lord on that one.
Then they both grinned.
And the horseshoes sailed.
