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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
Summer: The Season of Inferior Sledding
Around my home town, you know it's summer when a man down the road is mauled by a brown bear.This is the kind of news that shakes up the entire ...
Read More Are You Enjoying Your Story?
Subtitle: Birthdays, Beers and Bonfires. Because we all love stories, and because we are ad infinitum creating our own unique histories every blessed day we're gifted to kick up a ...
Read More Of Glass and Stones
The way it is with my husband and I is this: he's got his shop to fix and assemble his works of art and craft, and I've got mine. Only ...
Read More Cabin Mystery
Copper River break-up The ice has not yet gone out on the Copper River. I’ve come out to our cabin to spend time working on my writing, without distractions, ...
Read More Poetry Arrived…Faces
Poetry arrived....in search of me. I don't know... I don't know where it came from, from winter, or a river. I don't know how or when... -Pablo Neruda I love ...
Read More Kelly on a Wyoming Ranch
I wrote this story when I was 24 years old, after working "round up" at a friend's family ranch near Rawlins, Wyoming. My first third rate romance, or maybe a ...
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