"Sometimes when I run at night" by Scottie Bahler Sometimes when I run at night, Not usually, but tonight especially, In between the breaths, The smog, the headlights, streetlights, sirens, helicopters, And all these stupid stucco houses In every empty, endless, excruciatingly dry direction… ...Not usually, but tonight especially, In between the breaths I smell home. 5:30, October, late for dinner, on a school night, The cool air, the cold arms, T-shirt waving like a flag, And I peddle home Not usually, but tonight especially, In between the breaths |
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A Christmas Blizzard
GK's New Holiday Story
A comic novella about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown.
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The Prairie Home cruise has become legendary on two of the Seven Seas and now is setting sail on a third, a weeklong spring break cruise of the western Caribbean along the Mexican coast, and it leaves March 14 from Tampa.
Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.
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The latest collection of Lake Wobegon short stories gathered from live broadcasts include Confirmation Sunday, the church directory photos, Pastor Ingqvist's leather bound sermons along with song lyrics and the "95 Theses," among others. Companion audio also available.
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