Maroa Stories · Weekend Publication
Main Street stories by Mike Pope, collected permanently inside Maroa Stories.
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Every story includes a separate Junior's Adventure.
2 Saturday stories
A dented tin beneath the hardware-store counter held a few neighbors' spare keys. One rainy Saturday, a forgotten key showed what the town had actually entrusted to the man behind the counter.
Junior's Adventure: Junior Opens the Key Department
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The first light on Main Street belongs to the café. By seven, the coffee is moving, the griddle is awake, and Maroa has begun sorting out the weekend one table at a time.
Junior's Adventure: Junior Orders Breakfast Like a Grown-Up
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