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Indifference
by Kim Northrop
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The Accident
by Matthew Sailor
Driving down an empty dirt road you pass a white sign nailed to a tree with
the name Diane E. Lane painted in red letters. The picnic area you stopped at
a few miles back was littered with beer cans. You imagine a carload of drunk
teenagers careening off the road and down into the river twenty feet or more
below. You wonder if they ever found the bodies.
A friend or family member carried their regret, frustration and rage out into
the woods and nailed them to a tree. The trunk of the tree is spotted with
paint. Someone comes out to touch up the sign each year. Probably on the
anniversary of the accident. Their grief has a will to survive, like the
animal that chews off its own leg to escape the trap.
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