🎭 Culture Oct 28, 2026 · Clellan Coe

Early Morning, Late August

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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Standing on Kelly Road, in Magdalena, New Mexico, are a number of abandoned buildings on some open, grassy, weedy acres. These 14 buildings form a loose cluster, as if called together for a dance they hadn’t rehearsed and left there. Around them, to the east, west, and north, sit a few houses, and open fields rise to the south. Half the buildings are terracotta, with standard windows; the other half are midcentury modern, one story, with yellow Transite panels and flat roofs. In the 25 years I’v

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