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  • The long house

    Creator:
    Harris, Gregory A.
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    The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an American graduate student in linguistic anthropology, arrives in the early 1990s in Long Awan, a Dayak village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families, traditionally nomadic, which have recently decided to settle in...
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    orphaned sun bear cub as a kind of surrogate child. Complications arise, however, once the bear becomes

  • Freeway : poems

    Creator:
    Dickey, Eric Wayne
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    This collection of poems focuses on a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding driving, cars and independence, as well as masculinity, fatherhood, domesticity and parental identity. The collection consists of three parts, Freeway, Menace, and Control. Freeway contains poems on driving and cars, some of...
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    sitting at the table all along. And lastly, to my lovely wife, Jenny Allen, friend and partner

  • Commercial

    Creator:
    Aguilar, Joseph R.
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    This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
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    drifts across the sun and the lawn turns dark. In the distance a bird squawks. Rooster? Well, no

  • There were bears and rumors of bears

    Creator:
    Miftaraj, Andre M.
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    There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears is a collection of stories that explores spiritual injury and recovery using a variety of interior and exterior narrative approaches to depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary, aspects of experience. In each story, the characters encounter situations in the physical...
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    cupboard and put on his shoes and went out. The sun was shining and the world was working. It was June and

  • You stay here

    Creator:
    Bluhm, Michael A.
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    You Stay Here is the beginning of a novel that centers on the notion of family, community, and the expectations that drive our interactions within these circles. The novel tells the story of brothers Mills and Nance O'Malley as they interact with their parents, Richard and Margaret. The brothers own...
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    genius. Thanks also to Keith Scribner, Marjorie Sandor and Jenny Cornell for their insights and

  • The fifth floor and other stories

    Creator:
    Mercer, Jacob Ian
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    The Fifth Floor and Other Stories is a short-story collection about missed connection and exposure—about lonely men in specific places.
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    the sun went down. “Do I need experience?” “No—not really.” Dale smiled and leaned back in his

  • Always talk to strangers

    Creator:
    Buck, C. Nathan
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    Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel. The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are experiencing their last summer before high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Their friendship is a complicated one: Maria was kidnapped four years ago, the...
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    , and Jenny Cornell of the Oregon State University program in Creative Writing. Their unique approaches

  • The matter between them

    Creator:
    Shumway, Charity D.
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    A collection of short stories about the Gardner family, spanning several generations, but focusing on the children of Len and Laura Gardner, Brooke, the second oldest, in particular. Set primarily in Utah, the collection tells the story of family members' struggles with one another, with their religious faith, and with...
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    , and chin were red with cold, and the green ribbon at the bottom of one of her two blonde braids was

  • Night dreamer walks

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    Groves, John M. (John Martin)
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    In Night Dreamer Walks, the first eight chapters of a novel of the same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years ago in Oregon's Klamath Basin. Beginning as a story to avenge his father's death during an unusual outbreak of tribal...
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    ……………………………………………….. 87 Night Dreamer Walks Prologue Night sat at the marsh’s edge, watching the sun

  • Something mortal I could fall upon

    Creator:
    Roush, Stephanie Rae
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    Something Mortal I Could Fall Upon is a collection of poetry exploring geographical, emotional, and cerebral permutations of home. These poems ask: What is home? What does it mean to give up a place? How does, or can, one rebuild the home? Although it is clear the speaker loves the...
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    . 15 What We Reach In This World is not very tall. The sun, hanging on the forest