MONDAY MAILTIME: The Thing That Circled Our Boat & The Harvest Corner We Can't Cut

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Two listeners. Two encounters with something owed a share and what happens when the debt goes unpaid. Merryn, a Jersey fisherwoman, breaks the one rule her father was fierce about: never count the catch aloud at sea. Within minutes, fog rolls in from a clear sky, and something heavy circles the boat just out of sight. Her father calmly puts his three best fish back into the water, murmurs in the old island tongue and the moment the third goes over, the sound stops and the fog lifts. Then Wyatt, a Kansas farmer, always leaves a small patch of the last field uncut — “the old one’s share.” The year a hired man cuts it, a dry rustling like wind through wheat moves through his barn, then his…