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Ollie
When Ollie found the body in the dumpster what he thought was: That’s George Hill. Somebody killed George Hill and put him in the dumpster, he said out loud. Ollie had driven the garbage truck for twelve years and he knew every dumpster in town. When the police arrived, he [...]
Some Day This War’s Gonna End
Night of the Living Dead (1968) begins with a shot of a car driving through a pastoral and eerie countryside. The car turns off the road and winds its way into a graveyard, where we discover that its passengers are a brother and sister who have come out from Pittsburgh [...]
What is a Gun?
There is a story my father tells about his father. This was in Wyoming, on the ranch. They had spent the summer together, building a cabin at the mouth of a small canyon; one night sometime after this my grandfather was in that cabin and he heard a noise. He [...]