A window into my life

Here you can find some stories that I have been working on collecting over the years. I've been told some of them are pretty interesting- I seem to attract really odd experiences. I have started writing them here in hopes that someone can come across them and get as much joy out of them as I do. Charlie Bayne

Higher education, roadkill, and a totaled car

What do these things have in common? Answer: me as a sophmore at Dickinson College. Spring, 2013

I looked on in disbelief. In the front of the class, one of my classmates was holding a completely flattened squirrel by its tail. From the looks of it, it had been completely squashed by a large truck, possibly even an 18-wheeler. I took a quick look around to survey my classmates. Everyone else seemed quite awestruck too, but somehow no one had the audacity to bring it to the professor’s attention that this was an insane thing for someone to be doing. It was the second day of my first upper-level biology class at Dickinson College, a class called A Natural History of Vertebrates. I didn’t know it then, but the class was going to get a lot weirder from there.

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Misery island was both incredible and miserable

For just $90, you too could have a boat capable of taking on 6 foot seas and making it to an island 2 miles off the coast. September 2017

Also a decent story. Check back soon.

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Charlie Bayne

Not even really sure what to say here.