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    Portland Portent
    Portland Portent
    Portland Portent
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    Portland Portent

    By Mike Bozart

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    In October of 1992, the author (future Agent 33) takes an interesting bus trip from San Francisco to Portland (OR). He has a very strange dream with an iconic image in a North Portland motel room. When he later goes hiking in Forest Park, a surreal adventure begins after finding some liberty caps. And when he returns to St. Johns Bridge, he realizes that his odd dream actually presaged a calamity on the Willamette River.

    Another one, albeit much longer than the rest, in the psecret psociety pshort pstory pseries.

    Approx. 4400 words.

    Note: Malloy has a cameo appearance. "Yep, yep, yep."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Bozart
    Release dateMar 15, 2017
    ISBN9781310364754
    Portland Portent

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      Portland Portent - Mike Bozart

      Way back in October of 1992, when I was 28 and feeling no pain in the brain (the shunt was behaving), I decided to take a trip from San Francisco to Portland. No, not for cement. And, no, not to Portland, Maine – to the city named after that one: the Rose City of Oregon. Hipsterville, USA, or Puddleville (a name derived from all the pools of water created by those oh-so-frequent wintertime rain showers).

      The mode of travel would be a Greyhound bus. Yes, I was on an extra-lean budget (and still am). Even back then (before I ever ventured into the realm of creative writing), I knew that taking an overnight, west-coast bus trip would be interesting. Well, at least once. And, I should probably mention that I still had some of those tranquility-inducing, quasi-magical, Sidle on N granules.

      The trip started around five on a Wednesday afternoon. The weather was tourist-enticing and postcard-perfect: sunny with a few clouds moving in; temperature: 75º F.

      That bus seat felt more comfortable than imagined as we crossed the Bay Bridge. Nice. I can do this.

      In Oakland, a short layover where the bus filled to about 60% of capacity. The mood was subdued and quiet. Everyone seemed to be tired from an active autumn day. Or, maybe they had just smoked too much weed.

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