Bette Wore What I Had Come To Secretly Call Her Star Trek uniform, a hideous white suit jacket with too-pointy collars. From her face hung a beard of bees. Everyone's seen these things on TV or in National Geographic. Some farmer standing shirtless i...
Former sweethearts revisit their teenage love -- and their conflicting memories of the past -- in this “gem of a first novel” (Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children). In between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, Cedar Ri...
It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called "the Age of F***ed Up Shit." A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can...
Man, I had so many stab wounds, it was crazy. There I was at the conference center, and I hadn t even adequately prepared my presentation. And so begins Bleeding Man and Wounded Deer, one of the stories in this collection of literary short fiction fr...
This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed w...