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Thursday, April 9, 2015. Join us at 7 pm Tuesday, April 21,. For fiction by Keija Parssinen. And creative nonfiction by Ann Breidenbach. Her debut novel, The Ruins of Us. Was just released by Harper Books and was named a Must-Read by Ploughshares, Bustle, Bookish, Pop Sugar, Style Bistro and more. Her work has appeared in the Lonely Planet.

Writing to Speak to the Dead. I write as a way of speaking to my dead. I never consciously acknowledged this until I had a conversation with my mother recently. We were reminiscing about my grandmother and her deep orange-brown sweet potato pies, her way of sitting outside with a cigarette and cup of peppermint tea and heckling people from her porch. Hey man, why your head so little? It has been five years since she transitioned into the.

Ldquo;She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting. The Autobiography of Alice B.

Before the leash even comes out of the closet, distract him. Resort to the baby talk you used when he was a puppy, or from the years before you had children. Pat his head, tell him what a good little doggy he is, yes he is, yes he is. Who wants to go out? Collection of stories,. Won the 2012 Spokane Prize and is now available. His stories have appeared in.