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The Stoplight
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Flash fiction: Early one morning, a driver confronts a strange stoplight -- and their relationship with the rules of life.
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Steve Dodge is the author of Short Orders, a compilation of short stories, flash fiction and humor. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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