The Cow and Other Colorado Tales by George Seaton

Author:George Seaton [Seaton, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611870299
Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing
Published: 2010-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

II. Late May, 2006—Misty Creek, Colorado

Misty Creek erupted. Effusion of green, lake blue, flora fantasy, critters awakening, gelid wisps of the leaving season, yearrounders and seasonals awoke.

Yearrounders and seasonals marveled alike at what the town had become in the four short years since the Great Fire of ’02. Third Street was entirely rebuilt; a new two-story pine log Town Hall; a new Town Square, plastic outhouses replaced by brick restrooms with Kohler fixtures, hot water. Splendorous remodel of Gummer’s Emporium of Hard and Soft Goods, Est. 1884, now became Gummer’s Emporium of Hard and Soft Goods, Delicatessen and Fine Wines. Adrianna’s Potpourri and Curios, Est. 1983, now became Adrianna’s Potpourri and Curios, Day Spa and Vintage Clothing. FM Canoes – For Rent, became FM Marina – Canoes, Rowboats, Motorboats, Jet Skis, Bar & Grill. Two gleaming red, white and blue, four-wheel-drive, 2006 Chevrolet Suburbans fitted out with light bars, sirens, gun racks, computers, riot gear, shotguns, fire extinguishers, silver/gold badges on both front doors—Serving and Protecting blackly stenciled—sat strong and stoic, silently awaiting any hint of a breach of law or order.

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Within the new Town Hall’s subterranean garage, a gray steel door marked NO ADMITTANCE ALARM WILL SOUND, allowed entrance by only four keys. Twenty feet of stairs past the gray door, down to a concrete and steel reinforced room, four additional doors, deadlocked and padlocked, the initials GG on one, JG on another, FM on the next, and AC on the last; doors behind which reposed…things. Just things.

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Mayor Grant Gummer waved at tourists. Drove his midnight blue, 2002 Lincoln Continental slowly up Main, said he to no one in particular, “Ssssssweet Betsssy!”

Life was good in Misty Creek.

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