Category: The County

• Day 31 – The Chiropter

  He wouldn’t be like all these other crackpots with their flying deathtraps.

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  July 12, 2014

  The County

  bats, experiments, families, flying machines, inventions, inventors, sabotage, technology

• Day 23 – The Lottery

  Any brief perusal of the Book of Mayors would show you that the system certainly had its failings.

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  July 4, 2014

  The County

  dogs, insanity, lotteries, mayors, pink, rulers, rules, sadism

• Day 20 – The Purple Pineapple

  The township of Bile wasn’t the sort of town you’d see a pineapple in at all, you understand, let alone a mystery pineapple left at the break of dawn in the middle of the town square with no indication of its ownership or origins.

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  July 4, 2014

  The County

  colors, experiments, mayors, mysteries, pineapples, poison, saloons, taste tests

• Day 7 – The Butterfly Dance

  You could always tell when it was nearing, because the little creatures would celebrate the warming weather by being especially expressive, floating to and from each other in dizzying and unpredictable patterns.

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  June 16, 2014

  The County, The Kingdom, The Pound

  butterflies, dances, gardens, new clothes, old couples, romance

• Day 6 – The Racecar Driver

  While he was still competing in smaller circuits, he began racing with a capuchin monkey strapped into a car seat on the passenger side of his trademark Number 71 vehicle.

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  June 16, 2014

  The County, The Here And Now, The Pound

  cars, drivers, monkeys, NASCAR, obituary, racecars, Tennessee

• Day 4 – The Circus

  It was just behind the eyes of the kids who went through their days blank faced, because what joy could an activity have, when you know what’s just days away. Oh yes, the circus was coming.

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  June 13, 2014

  The County

  anticipation, circuses, country, neighbors, small towns, wizard of oz