S&R Fiction: “Theodore Roosevelt’s Eyebrows,” by Teresa Milbrodt
source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/11/02/sr-fiction-theodore-roosevelts-eyebrows-by-teres...
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To live in North Dakota you must like driving. You must value a landscape where there is never much between you and the horizon. The four of us grew up here so space is second nature. We are accustomed to towns such as Lost Point—six hundred people, a grocery store, a gas station, a bank, and a motel with one of those big orange flashing emergency road signs out front that no one uses because there are no road emergencies. The motel is full for two weeks every summer due to traffic to and from the Badlands and Montana rodeos. Fifteen or so years ago when we were still in high school we dreamed summer romances with young men from exotic places like Tampa and Fort Lauderdale, but we got sensible jobs at the bank and married people from here because everyone does.
The eyebrows, which might be considered our town’s only notable attraction, are not advertised in any tour book.
The eyebrows, which might be considered our town’s only notable attraction, are not advertised in any tour book.
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