| Thunder Sandwich #17
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 dweeb by jeff filipski |
| Small Town Papers They don't change from 1980 to 2000, The same people writing the same columns, Kitchen Corners and Talk of the Town consistent. Photos adapt to show their age, growing beyond the Carter administration and offering recipes for the New Economy-classified ads sell cars at cheaper prices. The drug dealers of 1980, appearing in circuit court, are Now the police chiefs of 2001, making a bust. The authors of Local Happenings now star in The obituaries. Death at Six AM It's never really welcome, death that is, unless you hated the bastard and wanted to be the first to know. We loved him, or at least she did, and her mother had to be the one to call. Her father never cries, military man Vietnam Vet-turned the purple heart down Because others deserved it more-and his eyes were stone in 67 and in 97, when his mother died from Alzheimer's. but in 2001, at 6AM, the man can't speak to his daughter. His voice is a Grecian statue, cracked and weathered with grief; his eyes a waterfall of blood. |
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Edited by Jim Chandler & Haze McElhenny
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