Rule by HOA: The Price of Predictability

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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...

The Catacombs

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In Paris, there are so many places worth seeing. We’ve seen them on postcards and Facebook posts. But out of all the places I’ve...

The Farm

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A new short story just in time for Halloween from Port Townsend author Karen Clemens. Photo by Al Bergstein. The Farm was built by a...

A Gritty, Poetic Story of Misadventure

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"Calypso, Rhyme of the Modern Mariner" Forty years after the fact, longtime Port Townsend residents Dennis and Pat McGuire are finally telling their story, and...

What I Came Here For

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Okay. Whew. This is, indeed the life. And… sigh. The one I was looking for. Breathing into it. Owning the length of time, and...

Three PT Authors Awarded Literary Prizes

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Three Port Townsend based authors have received significant recognition for their work. JoAnne Tompkins has been awarded the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for...

One September

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A few days after Karen died, the phone rang. It was the funeral director, informing me that her remains were ready to be picked...

Review: Telémachus by Michael Daley

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Port Townsend readers may find this emotionally gripping novel by former Port Townsend writer, Michael Daley, hauntingly familiar.  Telémachus is a timeless dream of a book that takes place in a...

Sorting out the Shakedown

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I am in the thick, green, wet and sparkly Maine woods. My writing station set up with tea, breakfast, and Merlin bird app, to...