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One of my new stories, "Baggage," is in issue 2.2 of Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression. Go here to order a copy.
Here's an excerpt:
Baggage
Millie Fryer perched behind the UTE Airlines counter and eyed the swarm of surly passengers from Flight 1420 collecting their worldly goods from the baggage carousel. The flight was 45 minutes late into Reno-Tahoe due to an Arizona sandstorm and then smoke from fires near Lake Tahoe. Add to that the heat of late afternoon in June, pockets of crying babies, and lost bags – you had a recipe for disaster, or at least a major headache. As Millie scanned the crowd, she knew it was very likely that at least one of these fine citizens would be luggageless when the carousel stopped. Bags had been lost or delayed on 15 of the last 25 flights on her watch. She kept score.
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The Reading List
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Reading now: '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age by Denver Post sports columnist Terry Frei. I don't read a lot of sports books, but this one goes beyond pro sports into a modern history of Denver. Terry surrounds the story of the Broncos' first trip to the Super Bowl in 1977 with a personal narrative and historical tidbits, such as the price of tickets for Red Rocks concerts ($7!), a roster of the state's Reps and Senators (heavy on Democrats) and tales of covering Denver's auto racing and horse racing scenes. Here's a great line: "I worked in downtown Denver, and we knew where to go and what spots to avoid, especially at night. Much of the time, you could have fired a bazooka down some of the streets and not hurt anyone after dark..."
I worked with Terry at the Post from 1978-1981, covering high school sports on weekends. He's right about downtown, although we never tried it with a real bazooka. This was before the 16th Street Mall, Coors Field, and the convention center. Downtown is lousy with crowds now, and the old Post site is now home to the city's main convention hotel. Wait until all the Dems get to town three weeks from now.
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