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UP HIGH by Peter Nolan Smith

April 9, 2012 – 10:15 pm

After my fifth beer the Rockies blurred in the window of the Inferno Lounge. AK tapped my shoulder and I swung my gaze away from the distant mountains to the interior of Sterling, Colorado’s only bar. It was more crowded than before. Most of the bar stools were filled by heavy men in dirty overalls. [...]

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The Glitter Of Gold

December 3, 2011 – 6:27 am

In the summer of 1993 Tall Meg and I drove from LA to New York in her 1966 Studebaker Lark. Tall Meg was in love with a man in New York and I was returning to no one. She was in a hurry, but had never made the cross-country trip, so we detoured from the [...]

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Somewhere Over Colorado

October 15, 2009 – 7:17 pm

In the WIZARD OF OZ Dorothy returns to Kansas via the wizard’s balloon. Billions of people have seen the movie, yet few know her last name was Gale. The same went for a young boy in Colorado who was feared to have been airborne in a high-flying balloon launched by his father. The police scrambled [...]

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