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In the Beginning
In the Beginning
In the Beginning
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In the Beginning

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In the Beginning collects 26 surreal short stories. Surreal stories are, in some way, impossible, dreamlike, hallucinatory. By their departure from the possible, surreal stories suggest definitions for reality that cannot be quite touched by stories that adhere to reality.
Stories in this collection vary from very funny, to deadly serious, from hopeful, to darkly pessimistic, from existing to define something that cannot otherwise be defined, to existing simply for fun. There is no effective way to describe 26 very different short stories in a short space, so I suggest you read the available sample, and if the quality of writing keeps your interest alive, buy the book.
Six of the stories in this collection were published in The Sun and in Bellowing Ark.

LanguageEnglish
Publisherjon Remmerde
Release dateMay 6, 2011
ISBN9780979783364
In the Beginning
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jon Remmerde

I took care of a hay and cattle ranch in northeastern Oregon, then the water inlets for the city of Bend, Oregon, on Tumalo Mountain, then a Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Denver and then another Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Fort Collins, Colorado. We, Laura, my wife, and I and our daughters, Juniper and Amanda lived on the places we took care of. My family participated in the caretaking and in the adventures of living in the mountains, nearly outside the consumer culture. I've written most of my adult life. I've published essays, short fiction, and poetry in The Crab Creek Review, Back Home, Bellowing Ark, Bugle, The Christian Science Monitor, The Doula, The Fiddlehead, Home Educator's Family Times, Home Schooling, Men's Fitness, Northwest, Summit, The Sun, a Magazine of Ideas, Yoga International, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Zyzzyva, and other magazines and newspapers. I've published books of fiction, and books of autobiographical non fiction. I've created songs along the way Many of my essays are about wildlife we saw and interacted with, about our close family that came from living and working in undeveloped areas, about the education within our family, about the perspectives that come from living close to the land with nature and wildlife close around us. I've kept my songs for myself and for family and friends, but recently, I decided to learn guitar, singing, and all the computer-related procedures well enough to record my songs and make them available to interested listeners. I'm involved in that process now, learning, practicing, recording and distributing my songs.  I will eventually record audio readings of some of my written work, because audio readings, along with my songs, have received good responses on my website. I still write essays, poems and stories, and I keep my website http://www.oregonauthor.com as up-to-date and relevant as I can in an attempt to make my some of my work available to readers and listeners for free and in an attempt to sell some of it.

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