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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT

Panic in the Department Store

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Five-year-old Philip Gerard had little to look forward to on his annual back-to-school trip to the mall. As usual, he would be purchased one new pair of khaki pants, his old ones sagging to the ground after a full year's use. But a routine trip down the escalator would provide more excitement than he could have imagined, and one pair more than usual of his standard khakis.

Philip Gerard is the author of seven books, eleven documentary scripts, and numerous short stories and essays. He chairs the Department of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. For more information about Philip, please visit his website.