The Cape Cod Bicycle War. Billy Kahora

      

       THE CAPE COD BICYCLE WAR

      from Ohio University Press

      Laura T. Murphy and Ainehi Edoro, Series Editors

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       The Cape Cod Bicycle Wars and Other Stories

      Billy Kahora

      ISBN 978-0-8214-2416-2 (paperback)

       THE CAPE COD BICYCLE WAR

       AND OTHER STORIES

       BILLY KAHORA

       OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

       Athens

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

       ohioswallow.com

      Copyright © Billy Kahora 2019

      All rights reserved

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      ISBN (paperback) 978-0-8214-2416-2

      ISBN (electronic) 978-0-8214-4096-4

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2019954622

      The Cape Cod Bicycle Wars and Other Stories was first published in 2019

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      Cover design: Yves Honore Bisamage

      To ‘K’ for being there.

      Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

      Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! – Polydore Smith.

      Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

       Contents

       ZONING