Mr. Ben's Rail Road: Speculative Fiction Modern Parables
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    [synopsis] => The surest sign of civilization returning to an area is in the trading and barter.

Festivals had long been attended between the villages, using horse and oxen-pulled wagons along the old cracked and buckled paved roads. And caravans of these would travel back and forth and enrich the brave and adventurous - or that was the hope.

For others, it was simply the hope of news that humankind was again populating the open plains and new-forested lands Nature had reclaimed in their absence.

Mr. Ben was a student of old texts. And he bartered his services as a blacksmith for old texts as often as food or other supplies.

It was no real surprise of his announcement that he had restored a working eco-diesel engine, so he could run it along the old rail lines back into the former "big city" and all the small towns in between. Repairing as they went. A long, slow process.

He accepted one young girl, a writer, along with the rough men and boys - so she could record the history as it was made...
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