2009 story submission by Dave Jarecki, Vinnie Kinsella, Arthur Smid, and Clint Williams Candace Graham watched her face on the screen. The blue background contrasted nicely with her fair skin and gave her eyes a piercing, honest quality. She nodded in approval as the voiceover blasted, “K-O-N-G, the King of Northwest news!” “Nice transition, Brian,” [...]
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2009 story submission by Lani Jo Leigh Three o’clock on this Memorial Day afternoon, I’m having a beer in the Queen of Hearts. It’s a neighborhood bar across the street from the community center where Eugene and I used to go swimming three or four times a week. One time I even got him to [...]
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2009 story submission by “The Listmaker” (Amanda Robinson) CHAPTER ONE Official List A9: Things To Do This Summer #1, Make a To Do List. It wasn’t that Frank was neurotic. While psychologists and his friends would call him OCD, he simply considered himself passionate about organization. Not quite obsessive enough to disrupt his everyday life, [...]
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2009 story submission by “Portland Fiction Project” (Jeremy Benjamin and Doug Dean) Our story begins in a darkened television studio in the Media Building on Pioneer Square. The intro theme plays for “Wake Up Portland! with Mitch Flayburn.” MITCH FLAYBURN: Joining us on the show today is Corey Egelstein. Welcome, Corey. COREY EGELSTEIN: Thank you [...]
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2009 story submission by “Smarmy of One” (Alan Dubinsky) The alarm chirps at 6:00am. Jack, the boy, the man, the stuck-in-between casualty of pubescence, gropes with a blind hand. He keeps his face buried in the pillow for as long as possible before lifting his head to silence the clock. The red “6:04” taunts him [...]
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