I’d kill a man for a nice piece of salmon right now.
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About nine miles outside of Fort Hope, between a cemetery and Wills Pond, lives a man called West. He refused the relocation, preferring instead to live a hermetic lifestyle miles away from what passes for civilization these days. The Ensuring America’s Future Act, which if I remember correctly passed the Senate with a unanimous 13-0 [...]
My little victory garden has yielded a nice bounty. Sugar snap peas and tomatoes are ready now, and the blueberry bushes aren’t yet picked clean. I took a bunch of the tomatoes over to a friend of mine to have then canned. Canning is going in in earnest now. We’ll get some fall crops and [...]
There are things I miss about the weekend. Back before everything went to shit, I’d look forward to every Friday afternoon, when we’d finish for the week, head off to get a drink and something to eat, and then go home to enjoy the weekend. New movies came out on Fridays. As I grew older, [...]
The monthly caravan arrived from Sherwood Forest this weekend with a flatbed full of lumber, several hundred pounds of venison, and a ton of blueberries. Going the other way: salt, gasoline, glass panels, a refrigeration unit, and a big turbine for Niagara Station. It was hotter than hell this weekend but at least we had [...]
It’s been one year since I moved to Fort Hope. Stuffed everything worth taking into a truck and headed East, towards the ocean and the promise of a new beginning. Brad Morse followed me in his truck. Later on we found out that Janet Calcaterra was from town, too. That made three, and in a [...]