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Pueblo, Colorado Has the Answers
by Kage Baker
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Copyright (c)2001 by Kage Baker
Fictionwise Contemporary
Science Fiction
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Marybeth Hatta had survived a lot. Not as much as her parents, certainly; her one failed marriage
had ended without drama. The fact that she had been a Customer Serviceperson for a financial
institution, and had worked her patient way over years to within inches of the glass ceiling before being
laid off when the company was purchased and dismantled for Corporate looting -- well, that wasn't
noteworthy either, given the state of California's economy.
It _had_ happened to Marybeth three times in a row, however, over a period of twenty years, and
even the girl at the Unemployment office had agreed the odds against that were probably high. It looked
funny on a resume, too. At the age of forty she found herself with no job, no Wilshire Boulevard
apartment, and no prospects at all. Under the circumstances she was grateful to be able to go home to the
tiny coastal town where she'd grown up, to do what she'd adamantly refused to do twenty years earlier
when her life hadn't been irrelevant: take a job in her parents' store.
Nothing had changed there. Not the stained green linoleum, not the candy display rack with its rolls
of tin Lifesavers, not the ceiling fan describing the same wobbling circle it had described since June
1948, not the bright plastic beach toys and bottles of sun lotion. The little town hadn't changed either,
with its rusted hotel signs and weatherbeaten cottages. It was lively with tourists on weekends, but by
Five P.M. on Sunday afternoon you could still fire a shotgun down Pomeroy Street without hitting a
living soul. Once it had made her want to scream with frustration; now the permanence of the past was
comforting. She had learned that the future, far from being inevitable, sometimes drains away like water
vanishing into sand.
So she was the Branch Postmistress in the little store now, selling stamps and weighing envelopes
for the year-round population, who were mostly pensioned retirees living in the trailer park on the edges
of the dunes. All day she sat behind the humidor cabinet and watched the bright glare of the sea outside,
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