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Aldebaran Vol. 18, Issue 1

Aldebaran

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Crashing Against The Wood, Jessica Ryan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this collection of short stories, the characters struggle to recover equilibrium in their lives that have been turned upside down. They struggle against one another, against change, and against the loss of loved ones. No matter what bonds hold the characters together, the underlying tension of change and reaction permeates their relationships and threatens what they know to be true. A theme of discontent runs in these stories. Something beneath the surface is not right, and the characters struggle to climb out of the mess their lives have become. Some of them have been stifled, like the narrator in …

Camas, Winter 2009

Camas

Faith in Lightning / Tim G. Gibbins -- Over the River / Laura Pritchett -- Three Field Studies / Alex Johnson -- Dirty Old Town / Edwin Dobb -- Crack the Egg / Laura Pritchett -- Connection / Talasi Brooks -- How My Name Came This Far West / Z. Cody Lee -- Because I’ve Never Been There, and Can’t Categorize What I’ve Learned About it / Maya Jewell Zeller -- At a Sleepover, She Goes Looking for Ice Cream / Maya Jewell Zeller -- Bean Lake / Karen Lennon -- Sirens / Juned Subhan -- Fence / Chris Linforth …

Three Short Stories By Carl Hansen, J. R. Christianson

The Bridge

Translator's Note. The Danish-American author, Carl Hansen, was born in Jonstrup near Holbcek in 1860, emigrated to America in 1885, taught for a number of years at Danebod Folk School in Tyler, Minnesota, and died in Seattle in 1916. Enok Mortensen once described him as follows:

"[He] had attended university classes in Denmark and studied at the state agricultural school. He knew something about pharmacology, a lot about veterinary medicine, and much about literature and philosophy ... He was a popular teacher. Each Saturday he gave a lecture-often on classics of Danish literature, and the students sat spellbound as he …