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    Greetings From Idaho
    Greetings From Idaho
    Greetings From Idaho
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    Greetings From Idaho

    By Kyler Doss

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    You set out to cover everything west of the Mississippi, this your bus trip after you graduate from high school and want to find new things that you don't know you are looking for. You start to find out that it's actually these boys you are looking for, the boys you meet easy on the road you didn't meet back home. You want to take all of them with you or stay with all of them, if that's okay.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyler Doss
    Release dateMay 17, 2020
    ISBN9781938181382
    Greetings From Idaho
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    Kyler Doss

    Kyler Doss has got a pocketful of chocolate milk receipts from the bus depots he has gone through. His note on the reverse side of one of the receipts: Arizona rules. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Kyler writes fiction that is set in a lot of places - the coming-of-age stories boys in love would recognize on any map you can google or unfold.

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      Greetings From Idaho - Kyler Doss

      1

      Recent trip

      MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

      On the bus there is no night or day. There is only motion. And you roll through the lives of the boys that you meet.

      I met seven of them on my recent trip.

      I can't forget any of them.

      Fresh out of high school, I was a boy looking at the summer. Somebody was talking about seeing America by bus. I got on board in Minnesota, where I'm from.

      The next state over, when the bus goes west on 94, is North Dakota.

      -

      NORTH DAKOTA

      John is happy. I like how happy he is. I like everything about him...

      He gets on the bus in Jamestown, not too far from Bismarck. I've already gone through Fargo with no one to talk to. I'm probably not going to be the one to start too many conversations.

      I think there are plenty of seats available but John sits down next to me, no hesitation.

      I live in Bismarck, he says.

      Oh.

      Made a trip over to Jamestown.

      I see.

      You can tell I'm not much of a talker. And you can tell that John is.

      Look what I got, he says.

      He brings his foot up and props it on his knee. The shoe is unusual, two-tone leather, kind of a tan color with a darker brown.

      Brand-new, he says. I found an old pair in the attic and my parents told me they're called saddle shoes. You can find them in Jamestown.

      They're nice.

      Oh man, I could have taken you there. We were just there.

      I didn't know him then. That doesn't seem to matter.

      He runs his finger along the edge of the sole. I think he doesn't want to get a fingerprint on the upper.

      I've never seen them before, I say.

      Girls wore them. Boys wore them, too.

      Dancing?

      Sure, why not?

      They've got style. I will always associate saddle shoes with John. I glance up at his face. He is still admiring the shoe across his knee and that gives me the chance to think about him.

      He makes you feel comfortable, like all the rules you play by when it comes to boys are just silly to his way of thinking. It's weird when you meet somebody who refuses to follow the rules.

      Yeah, he says, we've got places in town.

      I have no idea what he's talking about.

      Oh.

      I don't know, he says, if I want to dance in these shoes.

      He gives me the nudge of an elbow.

      What if you stepped on 'em?

      I try to act like this is how we horse around.

      Yeah, I say, what if?

      I don't realize until I've said it that I am saying a lot more than I wanted to. What if me and John were boyfriends for real? This feels so nice. Like, oh yeah, we're on this bus going into Bismarck where we plan to do some serious dancing. My life stopped making sense when I left Minneapolis.

      You never told me, he says, where you're going.

      I think about how to say it.

      America.

      He squeezes my neck. I've got news for you, you're already here.

      In a lot of ways, that's true. I already found what I'm looking for.

      John.

      I don't think for a minute that he likes me like that. He's just a friendly guy who isn't that different from some of the guys I know in Minnesota.

      What are you looking for? he says.

      Whatever's out there, I guess.

      I sort of have a chance to tell him the truth, but I always back away from the truth. When I say it in my head where he can't hear it, it comes out again as his name.

      John is the one at the end of a long journey but this is only the start.

      I mean, when I got on in Minneapolis I was outbound and looking for the experience of the open road. This is part of it, I'm in North Dakota. I like this guy named John. I wonder if he has a girlfriend.

      There's a lot out there, he says.

      I like his way of stating the obvious. It's cute.

      Yup, I say, for lack of the nerve to ask about a girlfriend.

      I bet you can dance, he says. It's gonna be fun.

      I'm not that good.

      "Let me see your

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