Breakfast at Blair's
By Dan Strawn
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When Hermann dropped in for breakfast at Blair's he had no way of knowing that Diane and Michelle would sit next to him and awaken hidden urges. They were good looking and friendly, a far cry from the homely waitress behind the counter.
Dianne and Michelle are intrigued by Hermann's sudden appearance on a bicycle and tell him he's a mensch for riding all the way to eastern Oregon from San Francisco.
When a Nevada state trooper finds a Toyota pickup in the bottom of a canyon, he's perplexed by how it got there and who the driver was. He discovers the answers in a strange twist on modern frontier justice that ties the chance meeting during breakfast at Blair's with violence in the middle of Nevada.
Dan Strawn
Dan Strawn took up creative writing after a long career in business and education. In addition to Strawn’s longer works, his stories and essays have been published in a number of editions of Idaho Magazine and Trail Blazer Magazine. His short story “Son” was a first-place winner in Idaho Magazine’s 2014 Short Fiction Contest. His essay “Everyman’s Smalltown” was a finalist in the University of Oregon’s 2005 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest. His novel Black Wolf’s Return was nominated for a 2014 book award by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. ArtChowder Magazine featured Strawn’s creative writing ventures in their Nov/Dec 2023 issue. Check it out by going to ArtChowder.com and selecting the Nov/Dec issue in the issues bar in the left-hand margin. Strawn is a life member of the AT&T Pioneers and a member of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail Foundation. He served as a member of the Foundation’s board of directors for several years. Strawn volunteered for over ten years in the early 2000s as an interpreter of the Nez Perce experience for the Nez Perce National Park and the Oregon State Park. He currently lives in Vancouver, Washington. Between 2005 and 2015, he taught courses for the Mature Learning division at Clark Community College in Vancouver. In 2008 he took his students to eastern Oregon and Idaho, where they experienced first-hand the Nez Perce story they had been studying.
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Breakfast at Blair's - Dan Strawn
Breakfast at Blair's
Dan Strawn
Published by Dan Strawn, 2023.
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
BREAKFAST AT BLAIR'S
First edition. May 5, 2023.
Copyright © 2023 Dan Strawn.
ISBN: 979-8223093718
Written by Dan Strawn.
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I’m indebted to David Bowman and Paulette Rae for their thirteen plus years of publishing and editing support.
Thanks to my local team of writing cohorts—John Beckman (deceased), Linda Odenborg, Herb Stokes, and Iola Trautman, and others who have coached me from the sidelines in my writing – Lee Murray, Dorice Cosler, my son Dale, and a too-many-to-name legion of readers, writers, graphic artists, and reviewers.
Also, to my son Darren who has served well over the years as my unofficial marketing/sales manager.
Hermann took a sip of coffee and returned to the map. When the waitress set breakfast in front of him, he looked up and did a quick assessment. Damn! She has to go out of her way to be that unattractive. It was more than the protruding belly that announced her pending motherhood. There was the men’s