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Archive for November, 2016

“…guy?” I venture. The door has been left wide open, but our guest is nowhere to be seen. Thankfully, he didn’t steal any of my CDs. “What a jerk,” I mutter. “I told you we’d scare him off, dad.” “Did he steal something?” Dad asks anxiously as he rapidly takes a visual stock of the […]

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Father and I have thirty-seven rehearsed contingency plans, everything ranging from wild dog attacks to flash floods to the (extremely) unlikely event that some psycho somewhere found out how to launch and detonate a nuclear missile. Noise outside the RV is something we’ve had to deal with before; nine times out of ten it’s animals […]

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I think it was a garden once. The wooden frame, like everything in this yard, is overgrown with weeds and brambles. I only found it by stumbling over the lumber with my boot, very nearly falling face-first into a patch of briar thorns. My machete will cut through a lot of things, but I don’t […]

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