The Dump Run

Originally published at Robin Hobb. You can comment here or there.

This morning I made the dump run with the damaged items from the basement. The melted TV, the traumatized DVD player,  the smoky couch that was 15 years old before we did this to it.  The refrigerator that quit working, possibly because of the power surge.  Or because it had not been feeling well for over a year and it was just time to let go.

Dumps have changed a lot since I was a kid.  I remember the dump at Fairbanks.  One...