Portland Noir

In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities.Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood.Editor Kevin Sampsell is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir The Suitcase (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books.

IntroductionPart I: Bloodlines“The Clown and Bard” by Karen Karbo (S.E. Twenty-Eighth Avenue)“Julia Now” by Luciana Lopez (St. Johns)“Water under the Bridge” by Ariel Gore (Clinton)“Alzheimer’s Noir” by Floyd Skloot (Oaks Bottom)“The Sleeper” by Dan DeWeese (Highway 30)Part II: Crooks & Cops“The Wrong House” by Jonathan Selwood (Mount Tabor)“Baby, I’m Here” by Monica Drake (Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital)“Coffee, Black” by Bill Cameron (Seven Corners)“Gone Doggy Gone” by Jamie S. Rich & Joëlle Jones (Montgomery Park)“Virgo” by Jess Walter (Pearl District)“The Red Room” by Chris A. Bolton (Powell’s City of Books)Part III: Desolation City“Burnside Forever” by Justin Hocking (Burnside Skatepark)“Hummingbird” by Zoe Trope (S.E. Eighty-Second Avenue)“Shanghaied” by Gigi Little (Old Town)“Lila” by Megan Kruse (Powell Boulevard)“People Are Strange” by Kimberly Warner-Cohen (Sandy Boulevard)