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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.

Henry Handsome was an outlaw cowboy—at least that's how the legend goes. Henry Handsome Lived & Died examines the creation, evolution, proliferation, dissemination and degradation of American folklore. Through 30 different short stories, the character, vague idea, false memory, misattributed anecdote or influence of the titular Henry Handsome does everything from change the course of American media to sculpt modern day knowledge of manifest destiny. Together, the collection represents the stories that create and define a culture, how those stories are told, if they ever were to begin ...