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Covered Bridge
January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It felt like it had been there since the first moment of time, that old covered bridge. Now nestled in a thicket of trees, one of its ends open to a long-faded dirt road, the other spilling out into the valley that was now a reservoir. In the summer, I used to go to the […]
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Common Sense
January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It was the early days of the space race. An immense rocket booster was being transported to its assembly site on a flatbed tractor trailer. Then there was that overpass no one remembered to plan for. Stuck solidly under the mass of steel, the booster promised to become a permanent fixture of the landscape. Engineers […]
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On The Backs of Others
January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment
He made it on the backs of others. Oh, he never boasted about that, but deep inside himself, he clearly knew it. Hurt lots of them, destroyed some, simply stepped over others after he’d gotten what he wanted. Now it was the top for him. Lots of money–family fixed for life. How that family admired […]