I I came to the city of Gold Creek in early May as the fitful spring winds were settling into early summer. The morning air was rife with the smell of lilac and the sound of lunatic birds tweeting and whistling from the huge oaks and maples that lined the streets of the finer residential […]
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I There are three reasons for a man to fall to his death from a cliff. It might be an accident, either brought on by a quirk of nature or human error. An unfortunate turn of events may have brought him to some precipice at a bad time – like a sudden rainstorm causing him
After a reign of three thousand moons, the giants from the stars, many-handed and many-footed, returned from whence they had come, strode back to their native planets and asteroids. They had grown weary of being in one place, which they could traverse from end to end in the space of one day. When they came,
Going through an old file folder, I came upon a document that had somehow survived since the early 1970s. I only vaguely recall the circumstances surrounding its production. The Developmental Studies Department had gone on a retreat (the lingo back then for “paid vacation disguised as work”) to some rustic guest ranch somewhere out of
On March 22, 1987, the Mobro 4000 left Islip, Long Island loaded with 3,100 tons of New York City trash. Some raised concerns that Islip was nearing capacity, and they pushed to find a solution. The Mobro’s owners planned to sell the waste to landfills in South Carolina at much steeper rates than Islip would
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