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		<title>Inhumane Borders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following is nonfiction. A cross, white as bleached bone, stands atop a low hill beside Arivaca Road, a rural, two-laner that bisects the most dangerous stretch of border in Arizona. I’m tagging along with a Humane Borders crew, an outfit of retired seniors whose mission is to prevent migrant deaths as men, women, and &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2025/07/03/inhumane-borders/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Inhumane Borders</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Meat Tube</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Welcome valued customer. Place item in bag or cart, and scan next item,” the self-checkout machine blared.&#160; Sean dropped a plastic tube of ground beef in the grocery bag, followed by a red onion, box of spaghetti, can of marinara, and mushrooms. He wanted a Butterfingers but he’d already added everything up in his head &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2025/04/15/meat-tube/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Meat Tube</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Look Both Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adriana felt her daughter’s shoulder pop as she yanked the four-year-old back onto the sidewalk. A semi-truck roared past, a second later, dragging a plume of hot fumes. “The red hand means stop, Izzy!” Adriana yelled. “And you never, ever cross before me!” Her body shook from adrenaline.  Izzy&#8217;s face bunched up into a knot &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2024/10/07/look-both-ways/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Look Both Ways</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Diggable Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Experimenting with 2nd person present tense. The ground of your ancestors is not diggable. It is hard as frozen rock, barren as ash after a wildfire, empty as your cheek pouches at the end of winter. Undiggable. The ground has been this way for many generations—too many to count. Tales from before describe a ground &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2024/09/23/diggable-ground/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Diggable Ground</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Werner and Row</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Short Story #2 Werner tried pressing call but his phone had a strong distaste for the blood that was being smeared across its screen, exiting the call app and turning on the camera instead. “Damn it,” he mumbled, wiping bloody fingertips on his jeans. He looked around at the inside of his Silverado for something &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2024/09/04/werner-and-row/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Werner and Row</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t you Get a Job</title>
		<link>https://kennettpeterson.com/2024/08/31/why-dont-you-get-a-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 04:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the time being, since I don&#8217;t have any races going on, I&#8217;ll be using this blog to post various short stories I&#8217;ve written over the last few months. I plan on posting once a week, so come back for more if you enjoy. Short Story #1 Why Don&#8217;t You Get a Job She used &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2024/08/31/why-dont-you-get-a-job/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why Don&#8217;t you Get a&#160;Job</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Happened at Indian Wells?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hadn’t been on the bike long when I realized my legs simply didn’t have it, and the last race of the year, Indian Wells 70.3, was just going to be a matter of trying to keep a smile on my face and reach the finish line with a few large handfuls of Maurten gels &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2023/12/09/what-happened-at-indian-wells/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What Happened at Indian&#160;Wells?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wildlife Loop Triathlon 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 23:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like any good day, my day started at Day’s Inn with waffles and coffee at 6:30 in the morning. I moved about slowly in the below-ground, windowless dining room, knowing there was no reason to show up too early to the race. This year, Wildlife Loop had around 75 competitors split between the 70.3, Olympic, &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2023/09/12/wildlife-loop-triathlon-2023/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Wildlife Loop Triathlon&#160;2023</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rebooting the season week #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s week three and the crotch swamp and resulting chafing has set in hard, even though the temperature has steadily been dropping from 108 &#8211; 112 the first week we were here to a more comfortable 100 &#8211; 106 this past week. The problem is that all of my shorts have a liner, and if &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2023/08/14/rebooting-the-season-week-3/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Rebooting the season week&#160;#3</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tucson Week #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Monday 10 mile run, 6:37 pace. Drove one mile from home to the bike path so I could access my cooler with cold bottles every 3 miles. Legs were already pretty achy by the second lap (6 miles in), so I cut the run short to 10 miles from the planned 13. Happy with the &#8230; <a href="https://kennettpeterson.com/2023/08/07/tucson-week-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Tucson Week #2</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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