Whales, Watching

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A little flash fiction for your enjoyment. Flash fiction is a type of prose narrative that takes the form of very brief, self-contained story. It...

Notes from a First Mate in Training

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Editor's note: We have not heard from Corky Parker in a while, other than that she had headed off to Mexico for some of...

What is Fall for?

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Fall is the downslope on the rollercoaster, an annual reminder of the many cycles in which we spend our lives. Whether it is the...

My Wooden Boat is a House

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 (from Chapter 14 La Finca, Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island) In honor of the opening of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat...

Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction

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Editor's note: With the launch of Oppenheimer, we are once again reminded of the legacy of the atomic bomb, and of the people and...

Permission

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This week, we bring you another short story by Port Townsend writer, Mark Clemens. This story originally was featured in The Coachella Review. Out at...

Deep River Road – A Book begins a Journey                                                 

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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...

How to Answer the Call of the North

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The following originally was published in Post Alley. By the end of April, the annual migration will begin.  Hundreds, then thousands of tourists from...

The Insights of Tralfamadorians and Quakers

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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...