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What Haunts Us
What Haunts Us
What Haunts Us
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"What Haunts Us" is the 2020 Winner of the Midwest Book Award for Fiction - Fantasy/SciFi/Horror/Paranormal! Loren Niemi has been captivating audiences for more than forty years. This award-winning story collection is an evocative compendium of stories he has performed on many stages, along with new explorations of the mysteries which arise at the intersection of the ordinary, flicker in the imagination, and dwell in memory.

"What Haunts Us" are those things that we hold in place in memory or feelings; people. places, actions, philosophies and beliefs, or emotions themselves. Loren Niemi has lived with some of these stories for decades, and giving them the form they deserve to have became inevitable. This collection goes from the reworking of oral histories (as collected stories about ghosts) that have a nod to testimony and exploring ways we make the intangible present; all the way to the last one - the Count St. Germain - which is about the way that grief haunts even immortals.

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Release dateFeb 1, 2019
ISBN9780463156490
What Haunts Us
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Loren Niemi

Loren Niemi told his first formal story in First Grade to the disapproval of Sister Mary Margaret and has been at it more or less nonstop since then.For the last 40 years he has been an innovative professional story-teller creating, collecting, coach-ing, directing, performing and teaching stories – traditional and personal, funny, scary, erotic or poetic – to audiences of all ages in urban and rural settings. He tells the life he lives frequently, artfully, and truthfully.He is a published author of the award winning “The New Book of Plots” on the use of narratives in oral and written forms and the co-author with Elizabeth Ellis of the critically acclaimed “Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories” on the value and necessity of stories that are hard to hear and harder to tell.He was a 1998 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and the recipient of a 2016 National Storytelling Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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