Fortunes for you!
Interested in having a fortune in Morgan's voice? Click the link. Some are from CONTENTS, and some are fortunes adapted from fortunes I've amassed over the years.
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Where Morgan lives
The main character of CONTENTS MAY EXPLODE UNDER PRESSURE lives in the middle of a thirty-mile-wide river valley in Central Nebraska, and her home bears a suspicious resemblance to where I grew up. I thought you might like to see where she lives. These pictures were taken in January several years ago, but I can promise you it hasn't changed out there.
When Morgan's feeling particularly insane, she borrows her grandma's car and drives out to the side of the valley. She parks at the top of a hill and shouts her problems to the sky—there's enough sky out there to absorb anything you'd care to shout at it.
These cows live at the bottom of the hill that Morgan frequents for her shout-outs.
This photo looks northwest from Morgan's hill (she always heads to the south side of the valley). You can see the other side of the valley--sort of--that's the dark shadow that meets the sky.
This photo looks northeast from Morgan's hill. Those white things are grain elevators in Morgan's town, which is about ten miles away from her hill. The black dots in the lower left are cows--"regular" Black Angus cows, like the ones in the first photo. When I moved to Minnesota, I wasn't used to black and white cows, and thought them quite strange. Nebraskans raise beef, not milk.
I'm getting homesick just looking at the photos. I love living in Minnesota, but this river valley is my first home, and I miss the Big Empty.
