ink
a literary supplement
Fall 2001
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Oil
By Alejandro Ayala
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By Brian Torrey Scott
The story of the man from the icy north who came to town on a hang-glider. The story of the Spaniards who robbed the Mississippi riverboats one hundred and fifty years ago. And the story of the prairie women, widowed by Indians, who founded the town in Nevada called Womansburg. There is also the story of the French woodsmen involving the skinning of an entire pack of wolves and it would be tough to forget the colorful tale of the little Louisiana girl who found her way home from Oklahoma in 1884. She might be your great great grandmother. She grew up to marry a French woodsman, incidentally, and had even eaten wolf stew at least once. It is the mouth of the Mississippi that bred her sorrow. It's also where America actually begins, from there swerving up to the northeast into Maine and across to the midwest and north again, back down to Texas and Arizona, up through California and ending in Washington before taking her final bit of energy to spy Hawaii and Alaska.
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