Ooligan


A Series of Small Maneuvers
You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories
Siblings and Other Disappointments
Blue Thread (The Blue Thread Saga)
Brew to Bikes: Portland's Artisan Economy (OpenBook)
Dot-To-Dot, Oregon
Oregon at Work: 1859-2009
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Echoes of the Lost: A Mystery
At the Waterline
Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest (Pacific Poetry Project)
Up Nights
Close Is Fine
Sleeping in My Jeans
Memories Flow in Our Veins: Forty Years of Women's Writing from CALYX
Brian K. Friesen
I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I am able to see. It makes me grateful there is only so much I can see, and I am left mostly with questions. Grateful, also, that hope is not a reasonable thing. Though I have seen my share of darkness, I am spared perceiving much of it. And here is why I hope beyond a reasonable doubt: I think that as the darkness grows, it makes the dim lights that are left seem brighter. And the darker it gets, ...more
Brian K. Friesen, At the Waterline