Category: Stories
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My Industrial Accident
I’ve worked a lot of factory jobs in my life, from the rock crushing job in England, to making gas tanks, to cooking steel. One summer I was working at a heat treating factory that tempered steel for tool and die purposes. I had a couple of minor accidents that summer that are stories in…
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The Day I Found Myself Between a Mother Bear and Her Cub
When I was sixteen I went for a hike along Centennial Ridges Trail in Algonquin Provincial Park. It’s a ten-kilometer loop that visits five cliffs along two parallel ridges of Canadian Shield. It’s a gorgeous walk, and one I’ve often done before and since, but this time I came very close to being mauled by…
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The least likely ending to a party, ever.
I asked a few friends what my first story should be, and this one won the straw poll. I cannot say that this actually happened, but I suspect strongly it did. For a couple of summers I worked in a factory that cooked steel, and I heard this from a co-worker of mine who rarely…