“When Treading Water Above a Bottomless Pit” by John Guillemette Jr. LRR, June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 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… Continue Reading