“When Treading Water Above a Bottomless Pit” by John Guillemette Jr.

Contest Winner for the Edwin Way Teale Award for Nature Writing (2022) I moved to Oregon during the dreadful forest fires of 2020. I moved out of Oregon during the even more dreadful forest fires of 2021. I came and went in smoke so thick that nobody noticed. As my final act in Oregon before… More “When Treading Water Above a Bottomless Pit” by John Guillemette Jr.

Invagination

by Daniel Arpie (2016)

“I would wake and then begin again, They would wake and then again begin.”                                                                     * * *                                                              I know a Person who works at one of the McMahill genetic testing clinics in the Pacific Northwest. McMahill’s marketing has recently become very diffuse and not totally unhip: the new Senior Marketing Director, Bill Koss made… More Invagination by Daniel Arpie (2016)