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Portland Dreaming: Eight Stories
Portland Dreaming: Eight Stories
Portland Dreaming: Eight Stories
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This collection of stories, set in Portland, Oregon, explores the intersections of dream and reality, imagination and delusion. The cast of characters includes hotel concierges, cat lovers, a shoe salesman who discovers the portal to a parallel universe, a graphic novelist obsessed with finding the hottest chiles in town, and a plant of unusually powerful intelligence. Settings include the mysterious rooms of an historical apartment building, hiking trails in the Washington backcountry, and an unexpected flight over the West Hills. Together, the stories ask the question, how can we ever be sure what is truly real? But the answers they offer, like dreams themselves, are often difficult to untangle. Serious but comic at the same time, they take the reader to places he or she is likely to remember.

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Release dateJun 22, 2021
ISBN9781005817312
Portland Dreaming: Eight Stories
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Frederick Kirchhoff

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Fred Kirchhoff graduated from Harvard and for many years taught English at a state university in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was responsible for course in British Romantic and Victorian literature. While in Indiana, he also wrote two books on William Morris and a book on John Ruskin, as well as articles on other literary subjects. He later moved to Minneapolis, where he served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Metropolitan State University. Since retiring, he has lived in Portland, Oregon. He began writing the Emperor's Library series while living in Minnesota, but completed it in Oregon, where his chief pleasures have been writing, classical piano lessons, and cooking up dinners for his favorite man and a few cherished friends.

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