Todd Stevens
The Trail, scene twenty
The room was shaped like a big horseshoe. Rough, wooden tables were scattered from left to right, in front of the oak bar, which was...
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Night Writer
Todd Stevens
- 5 days ago
- 10 min
The Trail, Scene nineteen
It was only because Tom had the foresight to bring his drivers license that they got a room. The desk attendant, a skinny, hunchbacked,...
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Todd Stevens
- 5 days ago
- 3 min
Secret Corner
There is a forgotten corner in a northern Idaho forest that lives inside me to this day. It’s quite an ordeal to get to this mystical...
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Todd Stevens
- May 19
- 5 min
Ancient Jack
I first met Jack when I was a student in Barber College. I’d been there for about two months, and I had worked my way from tenth chair to...
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Todd Stevens
- May 18
- 10 min
The Trail, scene eighteen
Jerry let them shower early in the morning before they left for Billings. They packed all their things neatly away, and were surprised...
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Todd Stevens
- May 16
- 11 min
The Trail, scene seventeen
The day wound by slowly, the sun’s steady heat, and unending light wore on them. Even though they had drunk plenty of water, they had to...
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Todd Stevens
- May 14
- 3 min
Bumpy Ride
In the spring of 1985, right before I moved out of my parents house, I had a job logging for a guy south of Darby Montana. The job...
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Todd Stevens
- May 12
- 11 min
The Trail, scene sixteen
Tom watched the crack at the bottom of the door until the cool fluorescent light above the door automatically went off in the morning...
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Todd Stevens
- May 5
- 10 min
The Trail, scene fifteen
When they turned, all they saw was the blue black of a rifle barrel, there was much more to see, but that’s all that mattered. The gun...
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Todd Stevens
- May 3
- 12 min
The Trail, scene fourteen
As the sun rose, their shadows stretched way out to the west and undulated on trees, fence posts, and everything else that they walked...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Parenting
As a parent, sometimes I find myself in quiet times, lonely times, times of solitude, remembering, recalling, wondering… I remember the...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 29
- 4 min
Kenny, Ditto, and the red wine fiasco
The little town in western Montana where I grew up had maybe 350 people in the 70s and early 80s. There weren’t many entertainment...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 28
- 18 min
The Trail, scene thirteen
The sun was up hard and high before Tom stirred the next morning. During the night he’d turned his back to the fire, but he could hear...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 25
- 3 min
The great drive-in conflict
Back when drive-in movies were still a thing in the early 80s, my friends and I lived for Friday and Saturday nights at the movies. Of...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 21
- 2 min
The Accident
In July of 1996 I was sitting on a stump during a break from cutting timber, and chatting with another logger. Across the draw from...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 21
- 10 min
The Trail, scene twelve
The river curved away from the road and dropped a little, racing along some high red clay bluffs that were honeycombed with dark baseball...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 16
- 7 min
The Trail, scene eleven
The truck stop was massive. There were rows of semi trailers angled and idling, and the smell of burned diesel hung over the entire lot,...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 11
- 7 min
The Trail, scene ten
Cat was up long before the sun rose. His bed and belongings were stowed away and he was nowhere in sight. Tom laid inside his bag, the...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 5
- 4 min
The birthday trip
When I was a kid the only thing I ever wanted to do for my birthday was go fishing. We went out all the time when I was young, but...
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Todd Stevens
- Apr 4
- 9 min
The Trail, scene nine
They followed the tracks north, through sparse pasture that bordered the tracks on both sides. After they’d been walking for an hour, Tom...
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