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Writer. Jack Straw Alum. Artist Trust Fellow. Former Stranger Genius Award Finalist. 2024 Washington State Book Award Finalist( in fiction). 2025 Gallagher/Lilley Fellow.
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Here Speaks The Comforter (opens the original)
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A Right Spirit: Chapter 5 (opens the original)
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My system shut off the lights. Read more
A Right Spirit: Chapter 4 (opens the original)
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***Theresa, Read more
A Right Spirit: Chapter 3 (opens the original)
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Dear TheresaI’ve received your notes, and I’m committed to being more disciplined and less flip.The hotel you reserved for me stood almost exactly where I had lived with my mother and brother twenty-five years earlier, give or take a few feet of verticality. But it was better when it took care of just women than anyone else. Before the Murano rose ther… Read more
A Right Spirit: Chapter 2 (opens the original)
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Terrence thought the downtown Tacoma skyline wasn’t real. From the train station, the casino sides lit with unrecognizably colored neon, and the drug hotels in Fife he knew to be flea-bitten shone in the distance. New highway off-ramps rose from the ground, and the city’s lights were colored and decorated from new highrises that hovered over tenements. … Read more
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