Rob Lilwall is a middle school geography teacher who is, not surprisingly, bored with his life. He is 27 years old, has no significant other, and has no big plans for the future. So when he his old buddy Al emails Rob and asks him to ride with for the last leg of his round-the-world cycling trip, Rob says why not? So our hero hops a plane to the god forsaken Siberian town of Magadan. It’s on the Eastern side of Siberia and everyone he meets tells him he will soon die in the subfreezing cold. He is warned about…
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A Slight Trick of The Mind by Mitch Cullin
The Sherlock Holmes we met in A Slight Trick of The Mind is a 93 year man that walks with two canes and seems to be losing what is left of his once great mind. It is a sad tale that is soaked with nostalgia for the days gone by when Holmes could solve a crime just by looking at the mud on a shoe’s heel or listening to the twang of an accent. Holnes still cares for bees and still roams around the world. He visits the site of the Hiroshima Nuclear Attack and marvels at the steel skeleton…