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    Factory Town
    Factory Town
    Factory Town
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    Factory Town

    By Frederick Garber

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    Factory Town is like a lot of other places. It has a day. It has a night. It gets hot . It gets cold. People move in . People move out. business can boom . Business can die.You get hired. You get fired. People get born. People get dead. People remember. People forget. Souls are saved. Souls are lost. Factory Town does not go away when you sleep. Sure, you dream. Sometimes you dream of Factory Town. Sometimes you dream of that other place. Short stories and prose poems from Factory town and the other place. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrederick Garber
    Release dateJun 18, 2014
    ISBN9781498910613
    Factory Town
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    Frederick Garber

    Fred Garber has been writing off and on since his days at the University of Iowa. He has been practicing Transcendental Meditation since 1970. He once got 4th place in a writing contest that had 3 other entrants. He was lucky that the judges were friends of his. He has been published on several online websites including Poets Against the War and qarrtseluni.com. Jazz and R&B are his preferred music forms. He lives where it is warm with his wife.

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