Loveless Oregon

By: Elliot Matson
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  • Loveless Oregon is a short story collection about death, rebirth, prosperity and its pitfalls. Each story takes place in the same building in the same town, across many years. The stories feature disparate characters and different situations linked by their geography and omnipresent supernatural forces. From a down-on-his-luck stranded traveling salesman in the 1970s to a duo of precocious Alsea Native children 700 years in the past, the stories are woven with delicate, whimsical attention to detail and acute sense of place. Welcome to Loveless.
    2022 Elliot Matson
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  • Welcome to Loveless

    Welcome to Loveless
    Feb 6 2022
    Loveless Oregon by Elliot Matson about death, rebirth, prosperity and its pitfalls. Originally written as a short story collection, Matson recorded each one as a serialized Podcast. Each story takes place in the same building in the same town, across many years. The stories feature disparate characters and different situations linked by their geography and omnipresent supernatural forces. From a down-on-his-luck stranded traveling salesman in the 1970s to a duo of precocious Alsea Native children 700 years in the past, the stories are woven with delicate, whimsical attention to detail and acute sense of place. Welcome to Loveless. To learn more, go to elliotmatson.com/loveless
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    1 min
  • Story #1: Love Me Like That

    Story #1: Love Me Like That
    Feb 13 2022
    In 1964, struggling rockabilly musician Keith “Tex” Bartlett finds himself in Loveless, Oregon, performing at a sorry excuse for a music venue. Keith becomes stuck in a loop between maintaining his artistic integrity trying to write his sophomore album and selling out to write a Woodie Guthrie-esque advertisement for the Oregon Coast.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Story #2: Praying for Bad Days

    Story #2: Praying for Bad Days
    Feb 13 2022
    Two estranged sisters meet in a trendy, present-day Loveless café. Decades-old tensions reignite and secrets come to light as Cass, a blue-collar townie who never left, discusses the condition of their ailing mother with Val, a bougie NYC sophisticate who put Loveless in the rearview a long time ago.
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    35 mins

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