by Nick Tabone | Aug 23, 2020 | Non-fiction
The busiest train bridge in America is an unassuming iron swing bridge that spans the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio, rather modestly called the NS South. At almost any time of day you’ll see a procession of freight trains trundling abacus like across it, heading east...
by Nick Tabone | Aug 16, 2020 | Non-fiction
At the end of a pier in Sandusky, Ohio the Norfolk and Southern Coal Company’s load rig perches on the seawall like a steam-punk gargoyle, regurgitating a steady torrent of carbonized rock from its gaping maw into the bellies of waiting freighters. It...
by Nick Tabone | Aug 12, 2020 | Non-fiction
Today, summer; sticky hot. Stepping from the ship’s ladder onto dry land and his first foot fall in over a month is onto ground soft with rain and goose shit. The grass is pillowy thick and were it not for the aforementioned doo-doo he would drop face...
by Nick Tabone | Aug 6, 2020 | Non-fiction
In 1988 my family moved to the island of Malta. In the late eighties and early nineties it was not the cosmopolitan place it is today, reeling as it was from years of near-socialist rule, corruption, and the usual chaos that post-colonial countries find...
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