Chapter 41Harder than Hangdog Inlet

From the moment I pulled into our dock in Chattanooga, one word jumped into my brain and wouldn’t leave. Loop. That word seemed to imply that I would jump onto the circuit, circle around once, and things would be the same when we got back. I could instinctively feel the fallacy. The things around me were mostly the same, much like the feeling of walking into my office the first thing in the morning. The beige dock, the tows rumbling across the river, and the condos lined up like sentinels along the Tennessee Riverwalk. All clicked into place as the neurons in my brain fired in recognition.

Surprisingly, the dock was fundamentally different because we were different. I recognized the features of the dock I’d ...

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