Product Description: Nance Van Winckel's wry, provocative slant on the world and her command of images and ideas enliven these stunning poems. Presented in two parts, Pacific Walkers first gives imagined voice to anonymous dead individuals, entries in the John Doe network of the Spokane County Medical Examiner's Records...read more

Product Description: Lynette is recuperating from botched Lasik surgery. Her eyesight is damaged, but as she “looks” back on the events of her past, she realizes she may not have seen them correctly when she was actually living them. Her husband’s death ...read more

A collection of interconnecting short stories follows the members of a 1960s commune in Washington state and their lives a generation later and includes 'Sometimes He Borrowed a Horse,' Making Headway,' 'Beside Ourselves,' and 'Treat Me Nice.' By the author of Limited Lifetime Warranty. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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A collection of interconnecting short stories follows the members of a 1960s commune in Washington state and their lives a generation later and includes 'Sometimes He Borrowed a Horse,' Making Headway,' 'Beside Ourselves,' and 'Treat Me Nice.' By the author of Limited Lifetime Warranty. (view table of contents)

Product Description: poetry

Product Description: poetry (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Quake \kwþk\ vi quaked; quak-ing: to shake or vibrate usually from shock or instability.Unforeseen and unavoidable shocks not only alter our lives but send tremors into the futures of many others. In this intriguing collection of five individual yet interconnected stories, Nance Van Winckel chronicles the ripple effects that one life or action can have on the lives of many seemingly unrelated people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A young woman struggles with a brain-damaged sister and chooses an unconventional path as a large-animal veterinarian in these interrelated stories that form a mosaic of a contemporary woman's life in the upper Midwest.

When the dirt is good, a small thing burrows and twists, and enlarges. Gossip becomes folktale, rumor becomes fable, narrators turn informants.There is dirt under the nails of those who speak in these poems. Common dirt, communal dirt. The dirt that lays us all low, and which receives us finally with its blessing of rot, commingling us in a slow dissolve.