Seattle writer Kristen Millares Young talks about her debut novel Subduction, creating deeply complicated characters, how identity and place are intertwined, the problematic nature of memory, and the need to preserve elders' stories during a pandemic.
In two flash fiction pieces by Ruth Joffre, the Seattle author explores the fears and anxieties surrounding raising children--and the lies and narratives we spin out to cope with introducing them to a complicated world. Accompanying artwork by Seattle artist and illustrator Clare Johnson.
"How to explain the thought of someone not wanting you anymore? How to describe someone erasing you with the same pencil that drew you, leaving only your paws?" Seattle-based writer Corinne Manning's slyly funny work of fiction observes the disorientation and emotional chaos that follows a difficult breakup.
"If you’re at the county hospital parked in the three-minute pull-out by that new clinic building, and the employee you’re picking up doesn’t come out, you see an opera. Verismo." Flash fiction by Seattle-based writer Valerie Trueblood.
In this short story by Matt Briggs, a man living in his Honda Accord appears outside the home of Maureen Hough, a teenager whose father works a blue-collar job and pays a mortgage on a home not far from Pacific Highway South. A timely story as Seattle faces a critical housing crisis it can't ignore.
"My mother never really read my sister’s diary – she only skimmed it, so that she got names and dates wrong. I know. Because I read it thoroughly, even made edits occasionally, inserting commas in my sister’s life." New short fiction by Seattle-based writer Donna Miscolta.
