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[US] This Oregon airport vending machine dispenses short stories for free

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Eugene's Mahlon Sweet Field is home to a vending machine that dispenses free short stories, thanks to a partnership among the Eugene Public Library, the Eugene Public Library Foundation and the airport.Lori Tobias/For The Oregonian
Travelers can find all kinds of goodies in airport vending machines – candy, soda, cosmetics, electronics. But in Oregon, only at Eugene’s Mahlon Sweet Field can an airport vending machine dispense a good read. The airport houses the only Short Story Dispenser in the state.
The airport houses one of four Short Story Dispensers by the French publishing house Short Édition in the state (Wasco County Library hosts dispensers in The Dalles, Dufur and Maupin). The Eugene dispenser, however, is the most popular, producing the second most printings in the entire country, second only to that in the Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C.