 He’s got nothing to lose now. He doesn’t require a splinter of approval from a single individual or organization. He has nothing to fear now. What remains to be seen is where his instincts lead him. That is the true terror.
 I’ve read it twice and have now listened to it. The different narrators achieve a perfection I wouldn’t have believed if I hadn’t heard it. Phenomenal.  This is a 5 1/2” crack in the draft/center sill of a hopper car. This is not a weld crack but actual parent metal. Bad news…   Two and a half foot cracks on both sides of the outboard draft sill of a tank car that carries diesel fuel. The welder placed too much of the weld on the pad (the upper metal) and not enough on the sill. After just a few couplings, this car could have been a disaster. QA at the manufacturing facility should have caught this.  …when you spend way too much time on stuff that’s not supposed to happen  I consider Tank Man the bravest individual of my lifetime. His courage has always struck me as superhuman and I remember him annually. Published by The Associated Press, originally photographed by Jeff Widener |
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April 2024
Chrysalis, a growing collection of very short fiction.
That Night Filled Mountain
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