The Boundary Line

While in my Marxist phase, I made a scrupulous study of the causes of revolution.

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This is a story I wrote in 1990 or 1991 for a short story seminar I took with Kyoko Mori at St. Norbert College. We met once or twice a week at a diner on Main Street in West DePere that featured a giant sign that said “EAT” (we called the place “the Main Street Eat” because we weren’t actually sure what it’s actual nam…