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Patrick Vala-Haynes

Ain't Nothing Here Needs Fixin'

First Published in Sand

I’m used to finding stuff in the ditch, but I’d never found a body before. Once I found a perfectly good toolbox. I’m pretty near convinced a man could make a good living just picking up what he finds. I’m sure that’d probably be a better deal than farming. I know I’m a little out of my territory when I road hunt, and I even feel a little guilty that I might be taking stuff from people who really need it, but I think every man likes to come across a treasure now and then, or, even if he never comes across one, likes to think he might. If it weren’t for possibility, I would have quit this earth long ago, just rolled over one morning and died, skipped my bacon and eggs and died.

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