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Sunday Snippet – Degrees of Freedom
There were X-Ray Specs that promised to reveal secrets, even behind a woman’s clothes. There were mysterious living sea monkeys that would live on a shelf in his room and keep him company. There were...
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Short Story, Flash Fiction, Of the Day, Spaceliner by Bill Chance
This was twenty years before there would be a bicycle shop on every corner, and forty before you could have one delivered the next day from the internet – the only place his father knew of was Sears...
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Short Story Of the Day – Pain of an Injured Child by Bill Chance
“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always–all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me–human.” ― Isaac Asimov, Forward the Foundation Bikes and RobotsHickory...
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My Bike on the Bridge
“People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.”― William Faulkner, The Reivers My bike – Vintage 1987 Cannondale ST600 Touring Bike. On the Margaret McDermott...
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Bicycle and Coffee
“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but...
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Swans and Brompton
“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck’s nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is...
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Upping My Bicycle Commuting Game – Part Seven – Leg Shield
“I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years...
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More Bicycling, Coffee, and a Notebook
“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the...
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Somebody Had A Bad Day
“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”― J.G. Ballard, Crash Scene of a crash. That heavy metal bollard – put in to...
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Reserved Parking
“When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.”― J.G. Ballard, Millennium People my Xootr Swift folding bike, plus helmet and gloves I had a great time riding around (although...
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