Finding Dorothy

by Elizabeth Letts

She managed to keep it distant and boiled down to the essence of a pinpoint, barely perceptible in her field of vision, although with the slightest encouragement, her fear could swell, billowing up like a menacing black cloud settling over her home, her life, her future.

We can shout and roar and try to make ourselves bigger than we are, but in the end, we are just rivets. Yet at the same time, we’re part of something that is big and fancy that transports us to the future itself, and that is Chicago. Where men are small, but they are also part of one of the grandest experiments that mankind has ever known.”