Franklin Vignettes

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Parts 7
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Reads 20
Votes 3
Parts 7
Time 14m

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Snippets of daily life in the fictional city of Franklin, told in flash fiction-length vignettes.

Welcome to Franklin, a city in full. Grace and pettiness, ambition, despair. Threats. Hunger. Heroism. Six sorts of love. More children every day. The NFL's Franklin Federals - Go Feds! The roaring Shawnee, which never floods Franklin Heights but routinely devastates the Falls side.

You've passed through before, reader. Now come a bit farther off the interstate.All Rights Reserved

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