HeyJaredThe American Hotel
In the late 1980's I lived in a strange Bohemian hotel in Downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi. These are the stories from those days.
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Half a Grand Flash Fiction Entry (opens the original)
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Float (opens the original)
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The Hookman of Delta Village (opens the original)
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A child fell to its death. Its death. Not his or her death. According to Wikipedia the child fell from a ride. A ride. Not the Tom Sawyer’s Treehouse Slide, not the Log Flume. This uncited single sentence in a Wikipedia article full of citations explained the demise and sudden closure of Delta Village, the Louisiana backwater Disneyland of my childhood in 1970’s Vicksburg, Mississippi. Having shuttered before the widespread use of digital recordkeeping, the park’s exact closing date is buried so
Summertime, and the livin' is easy. (opens the original)
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Sweet, Sweet Nothing (opens the original)
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