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Stories from the North American West, both true and fictional.
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I was very good at screaming. (opens the original)
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I wrote this for a class, The Child in Literature, with Isabelle Eastman. An earlier version began in a generative Joyful Practice workshop with The Scrap Heap. I didn’t share in class this week, because every time I talk or write about my family’s pet lovebird who died when I was in kindergarten, I cry and cry and cry. I’m crying now. It’s astonishing to me how that loss is still so accessible, so close to the surface, almost 40 years later. I don’
How I Spent My Summer Eclipse Season (opens the original)
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I sat on top of a five foot fence, feet resting on the rung below. The fence was installed around an empty field sometime when I was in elementary school, a horse run for the large, vacant properties subdivided out of an old farm between the start of the road I grew up on and the Amtrak station. It was full of scotch broom and I’d never once in my life seen a horse run there. Sitting on the top rung of the fence five feet off the ground felt safer than standing at the bus stop five feet from the
on the lack of scotchbroom (opens the original)
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Summer Break (opens the original)
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Dear Friends and Freaks,I will be taking a summer break from this weekly publication schedule, and from disciplined writing practice more generally. I’ll be spending July working my day job remotely from kitchen tables of loved ones, and August settling back into Spokane. Expect to hear from me here and there, but maybe not every Saturday. In the meantime, I’ve linked a few greatest hits below.Stay sexxxxxxy!!!!!!All love,Liina<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcd
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