Fresh water ebbs in the flat lands of the Midwestern near-future, giving way to dried-out clouds and a rolled flood of saltwater seas. What is a house in the face of scarcity and sea rise? How can it contain every love token—every apron, goosefeather, mason jar of earth—and all the hopes they represent? How can mothers and fathers, husbands and wives keep alive their domestic chemistries? Winner of the Cupboard Pamphlet’s Sixth Ever Annual Contest, Brad Aaron Modlin’s Surviving in Drought suggests that even when all is lost to a rising tide, we will still argue in our underwater kitchens, shaking clean our stirring spoons.