Category Archives: Other

This Story Might Be True

an Israeli and a Palestinian walk into a bar together

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You Be the Judge

September. Court is in session again, a darkness on the edge of our town. Winthrop’s vultures have returned to their perches in the forked snag.

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A Brief History

On a hillside above Twin Lakes Road a hand-painted sign beside a rugged cross reads, “In loving memory of Josh and Rachel— you will be in our hearts always.”

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Whitehall, Montana

Population: Obstinate In the family of gateway towns north of Yellowstone National Park Whitehall rightly self-identifies as the neglected youngest brother.

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I Know There Is a Purpose

The bearded seal suns on a floe while a polar bear stalks it nearby Biologists say it can smell its prey up to twenty miles distant

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Vocabracadabra

“The female       is like             a deformity                   of the male.” ~Aristotle What sleight of manguage did not morph cow to fe-bull,

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contraDiction

choosing allofthewords is not poesy

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Unsafe Regions

Antartificial speech is not compiled as is programmed computer code; granted, it does have a grammar, but it is not, as a rule, rigorous— nor enforced at the time the words intended for end users are composed.

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Passages

The morning of February 20 a pair of eagles took flight from a nearby Ponderosa past the windows of Ann Henry’s home and with them she also passed.       Survivors include daughter Cindy.

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Spooky Moon, Kooky Moose: Drowsy Spouse

The moon peeked out from shrouds of cloud Suspended over the chuck-holed road: It wasn’t supposed to be there. No: Forecasters forecast snow, and loads.

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