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A Halloween tale

A Halloween tale

The Lost Boot

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Gary A Schlueter
Oct 31, 2022
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Foxfire floating up from the mist of boggy river bottomland forms weird shapes, shapes nothing in science can explain. Oh sure we ain’t as ignorant as our ancestors of what causes the eerie ghost lights. Modern science is a wonderful comfort in a classroom, but of a cold, wet, darkest part of the morning with muck sucking your boot off about every o…

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