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The Ballad of Route 66

When her van breaks down in Delmore, Oklahoma — population 43 — a travel writer discovers the last original town on Route 66 and the people who refused to leave when America moved on.

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The Fisherman’s War

An aging Icelandic fisherman takes his eighty-ton boat against the Royal Navy during the 1958 Cod War, armed with nothing but stubbornness and the conviction that the fish belong to Iceland.

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Dead Letter Office, 1923

A clerk in the Chicago Post Office basement discovers a letter addressed to her with no postmark. The message warns something will come for her at midnight. What waits in the locked drawer of her desk has been patient for…

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