Tag: vermont
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Pig on the Loose
Pig on the Loose at Night They were on their way home from a concert in Middlebury, Vermont after dark, when a strange phantom materialized at the outer reach of the car’s headlights. As it approached in the opposite lane, the ghostly form was soon revealed to be a huge sow trotting north on Route…
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His Oldest Hen
He built a chicken wire fence four feet tall to surround the run outside their coop and still his oldest hen had figured out how to escape from the rest of the flock. This went on for weeks without explanation – or without any real cause for concern, because she always came back before dark…
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Quiet Joe
I went to daycare at the house next door to my parents’ in a small Vermont town. The husband of the woman who watched us always smoked his pipe while he mowed the lawn. An adult now, when I smell tobacco or fresh-cut grass, I think of quiet Joe, taciturn in the midst of our…
From the Firefly Galaxy 