Brandon McWeeney

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“The Conductor and the Bear” by Brandon McWeeney

Submitted to Contest #267

My engineer, Mark, scarfed down his peanut butter and jelly sandwich while operating the train—a necessary skill acquired by seasoned railroaders. His greasy hands stained the Wonder Bread black, but he didn’t seem to mind. He even licked his fingers clean when he finished, then hammer-fisted the whistle button as we went over a crossing. Long, long, short, long was supposed to be the sequence, but he gave one long horn blast instead. Mark started at APEX Rail in the late nineties, before I was born, and as one of the last original “ho...

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