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The Hike
Our family spent Christmas, 2023 in Phoenix had a fantastic time in general. In Phoenix there’s a mountain we always hike. It used to be called Squaw Peak but the city changed it because they realized the person that named it clearly held hate in their heart for squaws to name a hiking mountain after them. It now goes by…
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Childhood Chaos
Growing up, we lived a few miles from Uncle Marion’s and we rarely spent the evening without them. We didn’t have a set tradition of how we spent every night together. Our hobbies changed regularly, usually coming to an abrupt end with broken windows, bones, or relationships. It would take days to detail everything we…
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A Life in Flight
The name’s Vexing- Vexing Fly. I hail from Gold Creek, MT and will continue to live out my days in this beautiful place. I was born on September 29, 2023 and have lived to the age of 10(days). In my childhood and youth I spent most of my time outdoors, eating trash, feces and other…
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Summer of the Chickens
One of my jobs as a child was taking care of the various animals that accumulated at our place. One species in particular stands out in my mind. A lady we’ll call Karen had somehow gotten ahold of Mom’s number. She would text an average of thrice a week with some kind of request: “Could…
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AAA- Amateur Agents Anonymous
Shana and I were visiting Chris and Judy in Iowa on Monday, August 19th . I needed to be at work by 1 p.m. Tuesday, so we left around 9 a.m. . Twenty minutes into the drive we stopped for a conversation with a state trooper and I made the decision to donate funds to our government.…




