Kids can also enjoy a day of mini golf at the Prairie Park Mini Golf. For family entertainment, the Boot Hill Concert Overlook is a great spot to take in live music or other performances. For kids who love the outdoors, the Lewis Wetzel Nature Trail is a perfect spot for a hike or ...
In the town there were even three good people, and they did not want this crime, not even for the sake of the interest and the great commotion it would entail; it gave them no pleasure to think of Miss Amelia holding to the bars of the penitentiary and being electrocuted in Atlanta. T...
When the boulder began to slip and the animals cried out in despair at finding themselves dragged down the hill, it was always Boxer who strained himself against the rope and brought the boulder to a stop. To see him toiling up the slope inch by inch, his breath coming fast, the tips ...
A newspaper reported in 2019 that the new owner bought the land on Kijiji not realizing he’d purchased a residential school. Community officials confirmed the account and said the same person still owns the land, but no work has been done on it and visits are discouraged. Terence ...
“It’s a hell of a climb, but once we get up near the top of the hill it’s a brilliant place just to lie in the sun. My tan’s coming along very nicely.” “Yeh,” agreed Duane, “and since there’s nobody else about up there we can strip off completely and enjoy the ...
Discusses the issue of deciding who owns the electronic rights to a book. Why Random House's standard contract has new clauses claiming electronic rights; The William Morris Agency, among others, refusing to do business with Random House; How this controversy ex...
The train moved very fast, it was as if we were thrown forward through a mist of green, through a green dead dream. And I felt his fear. This piece appears in 365 Days, an anthology of what we would today call flash fictions, inspired by a newspaper headline and story for each day...
In a similar vein, the case of Target illustrated the risks of overly precise targeting when they predicted pregnancy of one of their customers, a 16-year-old woman, before others in her household were aware of it, triggering detrimental effects from her newly informed parents (Hill 2012). ...
Even on a day of grief, the living abide no idleness. Bodies need nourishment, goats tending. The hearth yearns for fire before the wind sweeps us all beneath the dirt. I loathe our hill, the leaden clouds and cold toes, black spots on the moldering potatoes. ...
While Ellis in Weak Teeth is lucky enough to have a parent who owns a property now worth a sizeable amount, she’s one of the many people who can’t afford to buy a home on her own salary. It was important to me to reflect a little of the current housing struggles, even though i...