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Topics -- Stories & Essays
Open Spaces Topics -> Topics -- Stories & Essays

Stories and Essays

A

    “Trolling upriver” Jennifer Anderson (essay)
    “45 Seconds” Kathi Barry Albertini

B

    “The Fortunist” Jason Blair (short story)

    “The Gull” Steve Blakeslee (story)

    “Adjacent Architectures” Joshua D. Boeringa (fiction)

    “I'm Glad I Called” Steve Blakeslee (story)

    “Apples” Steve Blakeslee (essay)

    “The Man from Slaughterhouse-Five: A Remembrance of Kurt Vonnegut” Steve Blakeslee (v9, n3)

      “Eviction” Edward Belfar (story)
      “Mr. Jefferson's Elk” Rick Bass (essay)
      “The Death of FDR” Eugene Blank, M.D.
      “Ballet in Bifocals” Linda Besant
      “The Space Between” Rick Bass (essay)
      “Dallas Revisited: Candy Barr, Jack Ruby and JFK" Shelby Scates (essay)

    C

    “Good Housekeeping” Mike Connelly

    The Stone of Love : Redux” Nick Cowell, Michael Ned Palmer (selected readers' conclusions to the story by Terence O' Donnell) (v2, n4)

    “The One More Time Around Again Marching Band” Marlys Chapman (v7, n3)

    “Insurgency ‘In its Last throes' Clifford Claims” Steve Clifford (essay) (v8, n1)

    “Art for Oxymorons” Steve Clifford (essay) (v8, n1)

    “Spring Thaw” Kathy Cody (fiction) (v8, n1)

    “The Year in Headlines” Steve Clifford (satire) (v8, n3)

    “Northwest Dress” Marlys Chapman (essay) (v8, n3)

    “An Evening at the Piano” Ann Copeland (essay) (v8, n4)

    “Clifford Accepts Complete Responsibility” Steven Clifford (essay) (v9, n1)

    “The Fear of Yogi: The Complexity of Fear” Linda Cooper (v9, n3)

    D

    “Writing in the West” John Daniel (v1, n2)

    “Rhapsody for Blackberries” Sandra Dorr (v1, n2)

    “Winter Creek” John Daniel (v1, n3)

    “Veterans' Day” Sandra Dorr (story) (v1, n4)

    “River Soldiers” David James Duncan (stories) (v2, n1)

    “First Star” Tracy Daugherty (story) (v3, n2)

    “The Prankster Moves On” John Daniel (a remembrance of Ken Kesey)

    “Power Hitter” John Daniel (story) (v5, n2)

    “It's All About You Jeffery: Dinner, Baseball and Self-Esteem” Kenneth Dixon (story) (v5, n4)

    “Slow News is Good News” Alan Durning (essay) (v6, n4)

    “The Greatest Bear Suit You Ever Saw” Brian Doyle (story) (v8, n3)

    “Toilet Paper” K. B. Dixon (fiction) (v9, n2)

    E

    F

    “Sadie's Tomatoes” Jack Foster (story) (v4, n1)

    “Signs of Canada” Jenny Flynn (essay) (v4, n4)

    “The Milltown Union Bar Revisited” Charles Finn (creative story) (v6, n4)

    G

    “Traveling Close to Home” Debra Gwartney (essay) (v2, n4)

    “To Build a House” Charles Goodrich (essay) (v5, n1)

    “Personal renewal” John W. Gardner, Ph.D (essay) (v5, n2)

    “Erratics” Charles Goodrich (v6, n4)

    “The Outcrop” Charles Goodrich (story) (v8, n3)

    H

    “One-Eyed Dunlin” Lyanda Haupt (v1, n4)

    “Earthquake” Jack Hodgins (story) (v2, n3)

    “First Bird” Lynda Haupt (v2, n4)

    “The Flying Squirrels” Fred Haefele (story) (v2, n3)

    “Adventures in the Plant Trade” Daniel J. Hinkley (v4, n4)

    “The Kanaka Connection” Norm and Carol Hall (essay) (v5, n2)

    “Vaux's Swifts – The Best Show in Town” Melissa Hart (story) (v5, n4)

    “Of Cats and Dogs and People” Melissa Hart (essay) (v6, n3)

    “Seize the Ice Cream!” Melissa Hart (creative essay) (v6, n4)

    “Idaho: East of Eden or West of Bliss” Margaret Herrington (essay) (v9, n3)

    I

    J

    “The Calf” Jonathan Johnson (story) (v3, n1)

    “School Days: A Memoir of Cowlitz County” Ron Johnson (memoir) (v3, n3)

    “Thomas Jefferson and the American Enlightenment on the Eve of the Lewis and Clark Expedition” Clay S. Jenkinson (essay) (v6, n3)

    K

    “Otey Island” William Kittredge (v1, n2)

    “Confessions of a (Reformed) Gear Junkie” Ted Katauskas (v2, n4)

    “Emergency Response Team On My Back” Tricia Knoll (v8, n2)

    L

    “Reflections: Liquid Percussion” Jim LeMonds (essay) (v5, n1)

    “The Replacements” Angela W. La Fon (essay) (v5, n2)

    “Real Life” William Luvaas (story) (v5, n4)

    “Surface Irritations: A Musing on Writing and Place” Jessica Lamb (v6, n1)

    M

    “Jafa Street” David McGrath (nv1,nn1)

    “Duck Brains” John Kavanaugh Marsh (v10, n1)

    “The Western Singing Fish” Kathleen Dean Moore (story) (v2, n2)

    “In Oregon, When Days Come Only Once” Ian McCluskey (v2, n3)

    “Haiku Northwest” Kathie Meyer (essay) (v3, n1)

    “Fire and Water” Kathleen Dean Moore (essay) (v6, n3)

    “Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are” David McCullough (v7, n4)

    “Bayou La Batre” David McGrath (story) (v8, n3)

    N

    “Lord, you gotta make this happen.” Dennis L. Noble (v4, n2)

    O

    “The Stone of Love” Terence O'Donnell (short story) (v1, n4)

    “Letter from DC” Beth Oakes (v2, n1)

    “Good Driver!” James Opie (story) (v4, n3)  

    P

    “Cascade” Roy Parvin (story) (v3, n2)

    “Best Wishes” Aaron Parrett (story) (v4, n3)

    “Catch and Release” John Pierce (story) (v6, n4)  

    Q

    R

    “Surgeon's Knots” Richard Rapport (memoir) (v1, n3)

    “Say the Word” Jean Rysstad (story) (v2, n3)

    “One's View of Mount Rainier ” Eric Redman (v4, n2)

    “Subtle Garments” Kristen Kaye Robertson (v4, n2)

    “An Impromptu on Owning Land” Jarold Ramsey (essay) (v5, n3)

    “A Slackers' Accidental Journey through the Gates of the Ivy League, and into the Secret World of Literary Magazines, Great Books and NPR” Scott Romig (essay) (v6, n1)

    “Helping Me Up” Bruce Ransom (story) (v6, n3)

    One's View of Mt. Rainier by Eric Redman(v4, n2)

    “Babe in the Woods: Tales of a Teen-Age Logger” Eric Redman (v7, n1)  

    S

    “Calling the Past into the Future with Stories” Kim Stafford (v1, n1)

    “In the Shadow of Memory” Floyd Skloot (v2, n2)

    “Sovereignty: The Law of Life” Ted Strong (v2, n3)

    “Now Go Home” Ana Maria Spagna (story) (v3, n2)

    “The Ozette Valley Story” Robert Sullivan (v3, n3)

    “Special Order” Diane Stuart (story) (v3, n4)

    “2001 Comes to the Northwest: Meriwether Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke” David Sarasohn (essay) (v4, n2)

    “648c” Rick Sterry (essay) (v4, n4)

    “Northern Cross” Robert Stubblefield (story) (v4, n4)

    “Reflections: Renewal” Rick Seifert (essay) (v5, n1)

    “Trail Register at Cascade Head” Kim Stafford (v7, n4)

    “Potluck” Ana Maria Spagna (snapshot) (v8, n1)

    “A Novel Approach” Bob Sorensen (essay) (v8, n4)

    “Theremin” Shelby Scates (story) (v9, n1)

    T

    “Ekka-Dokka” Gargi Talukder (story) (v5, n2)

    “A Garden” Jessica Tanne (story) (v6, n2)

    “Before Perry: The Story of Ronald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan” Jessica Tanne (v6, n3)

    “A Real Chinese” Eve M. Tai (fiction) (v7, n2)

    “The Handkerchief” Gargi Talukder (story) (v7, n3)

    “Come See Stanley” Ron Turker, M.D. (story) (v8, n2)

    U

    V

    W

    “Emerson and Muir: An Improbable Friendship” Arthur Dean Wilmot (v1, n4)

    “River Rememberences” Travis Williams (personal memories) (v3, n4)

    “The Yangtze's Unburied Treasure: A Story of One Town's Painful Rebirth” Davis S. Wertime (v5, n4)

    “Turks and Kurds” Rich Wandschneider (essay) (v8, n3)

    X

    Y

    Z

    “Reflections: An Evergreen State of Mind” Cathy Zimmerman (essay) (v5, n1)

    “My Life as a Nun” Mary Zelinka (fiction) (v7, n4)

    “The Future of the Book” Christopher Zinn (v8, n4)

     



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