
Vapor Trail
It''s hot.
The snow is gone, the ice is gone -- winter is long forgotten. When the phone wakes Phil Broker at five a.m. on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday -- six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life -- it''s already ninety-two degrees. It''s July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the worst heat wave i...
It''s hot.
The snow is gone, the ice is gone -- winter is long forgotten. When the phone wakes Phil Broker at five a.m. on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday -- six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life -- it''s already ninety-two degrees. It''s July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the worst heat wave i...