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Fire Lookout Towers were built in the beginning of the 20th century on high peaks and trees, with the sole purpose of using human eyes to determine when and where a fire was developing in remote locations. The Forest Service would pay seasonal employees over the summer to hike to lookout towers, where they would remain in solitude, their only contact a two-way radio to the ranger station.
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After leaving his job in the American and British armies as a computer scientist, George Davidson has few prospects in life. Searching for a place to stay and escape his life back in Britain, he finds a job offering through the US Forest Service to be a fire lookout on a mountaintop in the Cascades. He immediately applies, and upon receiving a letter he'd be going to Desolation Peak, uses his remaining savings from the army to buy a plane ticket to Seattle and head up the Skagit Valley.
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Based on the writings and experiences of Jack Kerouac and the life story of Alan Turing, an AU where George is a computer science for the army in 1954, who has to leave.
A dreamnotfound short fic, discussing period-specific homophobia, McCarthyism and the Cascade Mountains.
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- Part 1 of Random DSMP Short Fics
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