Chapter Seven: A Party on the Pleasant Mountain When last we traveled with Gyra, Dansel Darrons and their Boatman Stinson, the three had just finished up a holiday at the biggest Red-And-Gold-Reserve any of them had ever seen. Their time at the Anacostia River resort… Read More
Chapter Seven: Fate and Basketball It was hard not to pass the Thanksgiving holiday struggling back across the Anacostia River after Gyra and Dansel got a chance to see what was on the other side of it. Most of the makeshift town along those silvery… Read More
Five: November 13, 2012 After a few days of waiting for ‘better winds’ (during which one of Mister Stimpson’s ‘cousins’ showed up with some money he owed) and ‘a restock of supplies’ (wherein, Dansel was sent with the shotgun for two-day’s journey to the… Read More
Four: October 30, 2012 Gyra and Dansel sat patiently while the owner of that shack retold his favorite memory, from just before the Near-Revolution of October, 2010. There was tea for them, but it was cold. And the old man’s version of cookies was something… Read More
Three: October 24, 2012 Another hypothesis: should Washingtonians go on here, struggling as they do, people might begin to reflect, about preventable miseries, out loud. Gyra took Dansel’s hand as they walked on, and she started singing: “Went a long ways North to make my… Read More
Two: October 10, 2012 It would be furthermore appropriate to hypothesize that, should the Washington Redskins remain as they are, bookie Dansel Darrons could not have been a very happy man. He and the Cannoneer, that brave father to Miss Gyra (and it took less… Read More
One: September 24, 2012 To begin, let us assume that, where I am, things remain exactly as they are. If so, then Gyra could not have been a very nice girl. When she was seven, and her little sister got a new doll, Gyra snatched… Read More
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