The Parking Lot Attendant – Part 3 It was not long when the soft days of spring arrived, full of bird song and rainy wind, and passed like a dream as he sat in the booth, took cash and read paperbacks. In May he bought a brand-new car and stopped taking the long bus rideContinue reading “Fictional Notes from the Bloomington Archipelago; Part 3”
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Fictional Notes from the Bloomington Archipelago; Part 1
The Parking Lot Attendant On his eighteenth birthday he began working as the parking attendant for the city zoo. The lot was a city block of white gravel that bordered the ornate iron gate of the zoo’s front entrance. A white wooden booth stood at the front entrance of the lot. Inside the tiny structureContinue reading “Fictional Notes from the Bloomington Archipelago; Part 1”
Notes from the Peoria Archipelago
A few months ago, my wife and I went to Cape Girardeau, Missouri to visit our sons who are attending Southeast Missouri State University. Cape, as the locals call it, is a bustling river town of forty thousand or so. Like Peoria, the heart of the Archipelago, it was a trading post established by theContinue reading “Notes from the Peoria Archipelago”
Prairie Beacon 