The highway out is interrupted by veins of dirt roads leading to nowhere as often as they lead to pockets of dilapidated houses or trailer parks in even worse shape. From there lies a rural sort of wilderness. They take in students from three other towns.īeyond its main street, Cold Creek arteries out into worn and chipped Monopoly houses that no longer have a place upon the board. The rest have to look a town or two over for opportunity for themselves and for their children the closest schools are in Parkdale, forty minutes away. Cold Creek’s luckiest-the gainfully employed-work at the local grocery store, the gas station and a few other staple businesses along the strip. Population: eight hundred.ĭo a Google Image search and you’ll see its main street, the barely beating heart of that tiny world, and find every other building vacant or boarded up.
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