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Riding w/ Strangers #3: Another Child Soldier
It was my second cross-country train ride. First a section of the “Blue Water” route from Flint, Michigan to Chicago. From Chicago, it’s the jingoistically named “Empire Builder,” cutting through the lands of the Ojibwa, Lakota, Blackfeet and Salish. The … Continue reading
Dead Elephant
Most of the carcass is off-camera but the fake billionaire’s half-wit son smiles holding up the severed tail & brandishing a clean knife, too small to do the job Clearly someone stands beyond the frame bloody, sweat-soaked & bathed in … Continue reading
Notes from Box Canyon
[During the first week of September, I stayed in a remote Forest Service cabin on Montana’s Boulder River. It was an artist-in-residence program through the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation. I used the time to do all the final rewrites and edits … Continue reading
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Marc Beaudin 