Todd Stevens
The Trail, scene eight
After they finished the coffee and broke camp, Tom scaled the bank and started walking toward the highway. Cat called after him, “Hey...
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Night Writer
Todd Stevens
- Mar 20
- 7 min
The Trail. scene seven
The sound of the highway roaring past woke him early the next morning. He looked over and Cat was gone. Where his bedroll and knapsack...
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Todd Stevens
- Mar 12
- 6 min
The Trail, scene six
The first few seconds after realizing that he wasn’t alone a mass of conflicting thoughts tangled inside his head. Friend? Foe? How is it...
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Todd Stevens
- Mar 7
- 6 min
The Trail...Scene five
The ground was nearly featureless. Low rolling hills ran off gently in every direction. They were covered with beige, dead grass, and...
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Todd Stevens
- Mar 6
- 3 min
Wealthy
Friday night, sometime in the late summer of 1988. My sister and I were living in Boise Idaho with our young families. A heat wave had...
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Todd Stevens
- Mar 2
- 7 min
The Trail, scene four
It was still very dark when he woke, but the cold morning air kept him inside his bag. The traffic moved sporadically above him, but the...
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Todd Stevens
- Feb 25
- 7 min
The Trail...scene three
The high pitched howl of steel on steel friction, followed by the shuddering of the slowing train woke him. He sat up quickly, and...
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Todd Stevens
- Feb 21
- 8 min
The Trail...scene two
Sharp white sunbeams cut through the black of the boxcar like white lasers. He had rolled up his bag and stowed it and was looking out a...
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Todd Stevens
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Candy Thieves
When my oldest 3 kids were young, 7-8-9 years old, I could never keep a snack for my lunch in the house without it being devoured in...
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Todd Stevens
- Feb 16
- 8 min
The Trail.....scene one.
The hillside where he sat was steep and covered with a mix of broad leaf trees and scrubby pine. The sun was down over the western...
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Todd Stevens
- Feb 9
- 5 min
Watch the Skies
The year is 1973, I’m 7 years old and on an adventure, at least it was an adventure to me. We were driving south from Missoula Montana...
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Todd Stevens
- Feb 3
- 10 min
Paradise
The air is like one of those summer mornings when you walk outside and it’s calm and settled and there isn’t a fraction of a degree that...
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Todd Stevens
- Jan 31
- 13 min
The Visitors
Mrs. Hess’s house sat on a little rise just to the south of Glacier creek. It was the last house on the left at the end of a narrow...
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Todd Stevens
- Jan 24
- 5 min
Pigeon Man
It was late July in Phoenix, and 108 degrees in the shade. I was the first car waiting for the light to turn green at a busy intersection...
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Todd Stevens
- Jan 19
- 10 min
Time & distance
Time and circumstance have always fascinated me. The little ticks and turns that make us take a doorway we wouldn’t normally take simply...
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Todd Stevens
- Jan 12
- 7 min
Bad Company
Rob was the kind of guy that was hard to peg. He was ultra-conservative on some issues, ultra-liberal on others, and didn’t give a shit...
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Todd Stevens
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Subsistence Hunter
My dad was a subsistence hunter. The idea of hunting for trophies was completely foreign to him. When he went out for big game he was...
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Todd Stevens
- Jan 6
- 3 min
The Little Dark Road
Every night after it gets dark I take a long walk. I follow sidewalks under streetlights as they curve this way and that through the...
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Todd Stevens
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Frances
In the winter he’d sit in the cab of his beat up old white Ford pickup. Every now and then he’d start it up and run the heater long...
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Todd Stevens
- Dec 24, 2022
- 3 min
Old time Christmas
Christmas Eve was the longest day of the year when I was a grade school aged kid. The anticipation was agonizing. Montana back in those...
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