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Flight in February

By Philip Kraske

"The last barrier to freedom was four feet high. Belly to the snow, he had scuttled like a beetle across the dark fi eld some fi fty yards to the road, and now lay panting in the zero-degree chill. The weight strapped on his back made breathing diffi cult, and his lungs wheezed, stunned by the February cold that had followed so suddenly the extreme heat of the prison chimney. Teeming tiny snowflakes, like shards of one large fl ake, showered his head and
hissed over the world, and he pulled up the trailing shroud of sheets and plastic for cover.

Before him atop its crest of ditch lay the highway, an asphalt apron some thirty feet across. All day and all night, a
guard vehicle traveled the prison perimeter—the service road on three sides and Washington County Highway 67 on the
fourth. It was the highway he needed to cross, and cross unseen.Beyond it lay the empty fi eld and freedom, sleeping like a child to awaken at his footstep and embrace him.The cold smelled of salt, of entropy.

The convict raised himself in a push-up, stretching his neck like a turtle to see. The wind from Canada fl ayed the right
side of his face with snow. In that direction, a half-mile on, lay his goal: the town of Stillwater, chartered at Minnesota’s birth to forever hold its prison. There his future car awaited him."

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