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Resurrecting Daniel

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It has taken many years to write this novel. Terry the Terrible Troll . In fits and splits, it burns long and deep. I type a chapter as it comes, then shelve it until inspiration draws me back into the muse. Just before COVID-19 strangled the world with fear, I drove a Line 9 in Portland over the Tilikum Crossing. One of a kind, open only to transit and bicycles/pedestrians, it's a shining beacon along an overly-bridged body of water separating the largely-residential/industrial West vs. East Willamette River District. This newest bridge boasts bicycle counters on either end. Westbound crossing the river into downtown, the counter showed a significantly-larger number of bicyclists than it did on the outbound side. I considered this intently as I drove eastward toward Gresham. Plaguing me, I searched within the river's tidal pull for creative reason. Suddenly, it came to me as I passed over the bridge again toward downtown. There's a troll under that bridge. He eats bicycli