The Insights of Tralfamadorians and Quakers
Port Townsend author JoAnne Tompkins's novel What Comes After was the winner of the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize runner up in fiction award...
Infinite Tenderness – Chapter 9
Chapter 9 of the unpublished novel “Infinite Tenderness” by local author & Rainshadow Journal founding member Mark Clemens. Next week we bring you the...
Heaven in St. Joe
Several summers running Vaughn and Burlused to take Byrd on all-night fishing expeditionsin the old flatbed Ford. They would fish the banksof the Grand...
Rule by HOA: The Price of Predictability
Rule By HOA: The Price of Predictability
A few months ago, Cape George Colony, our private community out on Discovery Bay, seemed on the verge...
Infinite Tenderness – Mark Clemens
Rainshadow is proud to present an excerpt from Infinite Tenderness by Port Townsend based Mark Clemens, a novel he wrote that drew on his...
Deep River Road – A Book begins a Journey
Words and Photographs by Joel W. Rogers
October 17th 2022 Cape Disappointment State Park.
Once again, my 1999 Subaru and I are doing what we were...
Crossing the Delaware
Corky Parker has been living in two worlds for a number of years, between a home in Port Townsend and running the eco-lodge La...
Crossing Prince William Sound
We welcome back Corky Parker to Rainshadow Journal after her summer work in Alaska!
As Bill, my Captain, and I round the corner, north...
A Christmas Eve Story
When I was a young girl my father always assisted Santa in the most delightful ways. It was one of his special things that...













