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“The Summer Games” — Oregon Humanities

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Mary Akers — Ashland Creek Press

Patrick Hicks — Ashland Creek Press

Charlotte Malerich — Ashland Creek Press

Jean Ryan — Ashland Creek Press

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Between the Spark and the End (YA contemporary novel)

17-year-old Lily avoids pain by turning uncertainty into stories she can control. When her best friend, Marianna, rescues her from a brutal night at home, Lily believes the cosmos has sent her a protector. But when Marianna overdoses and may not survive, Lily must confront the devastating possibility that the pain she has spent her life trying to make meaningful may have no greater purpose at all.

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Horror Vacui (poetry)

The impulse to fill quiet moments with chaos rather than discover what remains of me in the pause.