The Southern Illinois University interviewer advised I would need to be in Carbondale within ten days.
To help me plan the trip, he described the location as being 70 miles from Paducah, Kentucky, and 45 miles from Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I still had no idea where Carbondale was.
This post is one in a series of short posts including the number 10 in the first sentence, a requirement of the San Diego Writers and Editors Guild anthology submission in 2021.
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