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    Analekta-Volume 5
    Analekta-Volume 5
    Analekta-Volume 5
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    Analekta-Volume 5

    By L. Lee Shaw

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    An anthology representing selections if written works showcasing talented writers from Oregon. Analekta features short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL. Lee Shaw
    Release dateMar 26, 2017
    ISBN9780990707394
    Analekta-Volume 5
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    L. Lee Shaw

    L. Lee Shaw is the owner of the indie publishing house, Boho Books. In 2017, she debuted the award-winning young adult novel, Aging Out. She previously published Blood Will Tell...and Monster Child, and co-edited Analekta, an anthology of writing. Her children's chapter book, Flunking Magic, featuring a little witch who is very bad at spells, is scheduled for publication in 2018.

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      Analekta-Volume 5 - L. Lee Shaw

      Analekta

      an anthology of writing

      Molalla, Oregon

      Analekta—Volume 5

      Copyright © 2017

      All rights to this anthology are reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the authors or publisher.

      Rights to the individual works contained in this anthology are owned by the submitting authors and each has permitted the work’s use in this collection.

      ISBN: 978-0-9907073-8-7

      eISBN: 978-0-9907073-9-4

      Printed in the United States of America Smashwords edition/ March 2017

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Fiction

      Glen L. Bledsoe

      Your Destination is on the Right

      E. Spenser Bronson

      Teresa and the Bear

      Susan DeFreitas

      Avast!

      Dani Clifton

      Dance of Shadows

      L. Lee Shaw

      Communication

      Nonfiction

      Heather L. Nelson

      Lacey’s Legacy

      Poetry

      Justin R. Hart

      Magic Minds

      Filtered Light

      Energy Field of Dreams

      Home Invasion

      Susan Sweetland Garay

      Bones on the Brain

      Ebb and Flow

      A Night in Harvest

      Leap Day

      Larry Anderson

      Conflict of Interest

      Downhill Skier

      Bifurcated

      Nevada Letdown

      Sandra Rokoff-Lizut

      The Way It Is Now

      Noodle Day In Senior Center

      Cento

      Baltic Cruise

      Contributors

      Our Thanks

      Introduction

      For Analekta—Volume 5, we once again cast our nets and pulled in a rich haul of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. Our contributors ply their pens in places ranging from urban to unincorporated rural; each uncovering a trove of human experience from the terrain they inhabit. Readers of all ilks are sure to find something to savor in this diverse collection.

      Our Featured Author is Susan DeFreitas, the author of the novel Hot Season (Harvard Square Editions, 2016) and the fiction chapbook Pyrophitic (ELJ Publications, 2014). Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in The Utne Reader, The Nervous Breakdown, Story Magazine, Southwestern American Literature, and Weber—The ContemporaryWest, along with more than twenty other journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA inWriting from Pacific University and serves as a collaborative editor with Indigo Editing & Publications.

      Happy reading!

      L. Lee Shaw, Analekta Editor

      Your Destination Is on the Right

      Glen L. Bledsoe

      Light bled through the bottle-green clouds and painted the wet road in emerald hues. It worried him. As a kid he’d seen clouds like these just before tornadoes. And there was nowhere to hide out here on a country road, nothing but cornstalks as far as the eye could see. None of the tornados he’d ever read about had taken anyone anywhere as nice as Oz. Fortunately there was no sign of a funnel cloud—yet. In the distance lightning etched the sky with brilliant lines, and a second later he felt the full rumble of thunder, something he’d forgotten about living on the West Coast for over three decades.

      He liked the sizzle of tires on wet blacktop. It relaxed him. Made him think of days gone by. Years slipped by without notice until you found yourself in the here and now wondering just how you’d gotten there. And how you’d suddenly grown old.

      He turned off the car’s air conditioner, rolled down the window, and sucked in hot, humid Hoosier air, smelled the rain, lightning bugs, and wet blacktop. Rain flecked his glasses and dampened his short, gray beard. This was the part of the world where his father was born. The southern half of the state wasn’t just a geographical location but a separate culture and mind-set. His mother used to tell him, Those people are twenty years behind the times, and they were. When he was a boy in the sixties, he couldn’t understand why his grandmother heated her home with a coal stove parked in the living room when his own house just two hundred miles to the north had modern central heating.

      The

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