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The Bel Air inside the Bog

A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.

An old man sits at a cafe never touching his beer. An American sits down next to him. They observe each other, believing themselves superior.

When Bobby was twenty-one and newly arrived in America, he met a girl from El Salvador.

There is an apple tree
At the bottom of the garden

Wednesdays it’s raining solidly, the sky is dour and gray,
About the place that makes me so miserable, yet still I stay.

A middle-aged man learns the true meaning of growing old.