I’ve seen this in real life. During the early stages of the Minnesota anime convention known as Anime Detour, we had a staff member (concom for you old-school SF types) who was a Korean orphan adopted by some Wisconsin folks. One of our other staffers, a generic Minnesota gal, was ...
texas shredder, a 50-foot-tall, hulking blue-and-yellow machine that sits on a 2.5-acre concrete pad. inside the machine, 26 hammers—weighing 1,000 pounds each—smash each car into fist-sized pieces in two seconds. the chunks are then spit out the back side. though most of the cars...
When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he wa...