Sentinel of Anecdotes
Tales of trains, oceans, time, and all the people in between.
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The Oconto River (opens the original)
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Every spring, for one week, the most beautiful fish in the world migrate up from their cold, deep homes in Lake Michigan and embark on an impossible journey. The currents turn ten miles into what must feel like forever. A dam, wedged along the banks of some tiny, forgotten Wisconsin town, opens ever so slightly, filling the dark, flowing garden beds deep in the river with stony current. In these pockets, these shady, protected curves of the water, they will abandon their children-to-be and, havi
How I Met the Sky (opens the original)
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I remember when there was peace.No platoons of young, hawklike paratroopers marched up the street that afternoon. Something had sucked the heat from the air. The branches on the birches began quivering. Above the graffitied courtyard, phone lines dangled and swung. From afar rolled vast heaps of pressurized sound. Wind gushed between apartment blocks and made their open windows moan. It blew in through my window and rapidly licked the pages of my book. Before I finished the sentence, a flash — I
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