Tag: First Week
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Meeting Arias
Sunday, 5 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan As Chris makes it across Huron Street, the first thing he sees is the corner of Grizzly Park. The name is a pun: the acre-and-a-half square used to be the parking lot for a restaurant called Grizzly Peak that was across Ashley at the south edge of…
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Wind Chimes
Sunday, 5 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan “Oh, what beautiful wind chimes! And such lovely tones they make! How much do you want for them?” Slowly, Arias draws her gaze down from the glowing mackerel sky to regard her booth’s latest customer: a plump woman wearing an expensive coat and an unfortunate hair style.…
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Arriving
Sunday, 5 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan “Go on, boy, it won’t bite you!” On the first step down to the bus door, Chris stops and turns back to look at the driver. He was hesitating, looking out at the front of the bus stop, and the busy intersection of Huron and Ashley. “First…
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Dies Natalis
5 March, 2017 – Solar Space and Ann Arbor, Michigan Shards of awareness ride the wavefronts of luminance and pain. Leaping away from their origin in the star, soaring across the slow tides of the plenum, the fragments can no longer remember whether they are seeking or fleeing, hoping or fearing, living or dying. At…
The Wolverine Truck Stop and Motor Lodge 