A few days ago I tore myself away from my beloved coastal Oregon to return to California where I lived for the past twenty-two years. I do have love for California, but had been ready to move home to Oregon for many years before I was able to. I found myself heading back to California …
The Wind
“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón I've been working on a short story about a cast of characters in a small town, and how they are all rattled by the wind. It will be FICTION but...it IS very windy in Port Orford and most of us who live here …
Escape from the Wet/Return to the Wet
I left my hometown of Salem, Oregon at age 17 for a summer job at Breitenbush Hot Springs where, naked, I scrubbed out the tubs with baking soda and, after work, made out with a soft-spoken hippie boy in the back meadow. From there, my big plan: GO SOMEPLACE HOT. My friend Jen and I …
Charlie J. Stephens 