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Hometown Hero: Chapter 1

The Saga of Terminal City: The Complete Urban Epic

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May 14, 2026
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Hometown Hero: Chapter 1

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

A silver bus shot through pin-dropping pines
on a mountain slope, whose broken roots fell
into the tossing water of a stream
along which the hiway wound. To the north,
they travelled, a busload full of loggers,
and women on return from shopping trips,
some students too.…

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