Tag: Waldron Road
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Waldron Road
13 April, 1987 — near Addison, Michigan The rain picks up the moment they pull out of the parking lot and just keeps getting heavier as they work their way through town and out to the highway, heading west. Geisler had been planning to use the flasher for a little extra speed on the way,…
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Blood Lake
April, 1987 — Ann Arbor, Michigan At two a.m. Bill Geisler has discovered entire new classes and families of noises that the office can make on a breezy April night, none of which he has ever noticed in the daytime when the place is full of boisterous, amused, angry, sarcastic, complaining, argumentative people. First there’s…
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At the Golf Course
April, 1987 — near Addison, Michigan Gravel crunches under the car’s tires as Leonard slows to a stop in the Devil’s Lake Golf Course parking lot. “You called, right?” Geisler asks with some concern, looking around at the empty lot. “Yes, William, I called,” Leonard answers. “He said he would be here. Let’s at least…
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Harold’s Place
April, 1987 — near Cement City, Michigan “All right, one more toast gents,” Tony states. “And then I’m off to the accommodations for the evening. We got an early morning tomorrow, and a bucketful of bluegills with our names on them.” “Tony, you ever think about running for mayor?” Leonard asks. Bill and Patrick, the…
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The Freaking Meaning of Life
April, 1987 — Ann Arbor, Michigan At least the office late at night is quieter than it is during the daytime, but the small hours of the night do not add any magic or mystery. The rows of desks stacked with paperwork do not look any neater, and the florescent lights that hang from the…
The Wolverine Truck Stop and Motor Lodge 