terrifying in its beauty—details obscured— the thick odor of rain lifts its fat and full face. Tornado’s coming my father says this afternoon. The fire department about a mile away sounds its haunting groan at the all-volunteer depot. Who pressed the button, who is there to get the weather report? I’m eleven, my … Continue reading
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The Demise and the Resurrection of the Diving Lady–Virginia Chase Sutton
At sundown, atop a 78-foot platform, the neon Diving Lady jackknifes, blinks, stretches to her full ten feet, blinks, then slides into baby blue ripples. It is a dive she completes every six-and-a-half minutes, amassing a total of sixty-four million leaps until a violent storm rips her from the Starlite Motel’s flashing sign. It sends … Continue reading
