Alaska Shorts

Alaska Shorts – Lucian Childs: Letters From His Wife Regarding The Progress of Her Enlightenment

Originally published in Issue 6 of Jelly Bucket. 1.How are the girls? How do you like schlepping them around for a change? Here it’s no picnic either. Bells, service, work period, tea ceremonies. Meditation ten times a day. The head monk is like that gruff ballet master who lived off Marlboros and Diet Coke. The

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Alaska Shorts: Visiting with Permafrost – Tocsin, Siren, Chime by Jessamyn Birre

Permafrost is the farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts, located at 64° 50′ N (198 miles from the Arctic Circle). It is a graduate student run journal associated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Issue 37:2, online here, is formatted like a “choose your own adventure story” with hyperlinks moving the reader

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Alaska Shorts: Visiting with AQR featuring Elizabeth Bradfield

Throughout the next few months, we’ll be featuring excerpts of writing by Alaskans who’ve been published in Alaska Quarterly Review. AQR is published by the University Alaska Anchorage and is without a doubt one of the nation’s best literary magazines, as noted by The Washington Post Book World. Each issue of AQR is rich with

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