Year of Award

2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Degree Name

Creative Writing (Fiction)

Department or School/College

Department of English

Committee Chair

Boris Fishman

Committee Co-chair

Hiltrudis Arens

Commitee Members

Marton Marko

Keywords

riot, humor, Portland, antifa, Christianity, college

Subject Categories

Fiction

Abstract

I left this morning for Portland, Oregon—could be for good. Told my dear mother I was taking a day trip then hopped in her dinged up black Audi and felt the thing hum alive beneath me. Her speakers were still good, so I threw on a playlist with Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and all of the ragged traintrack prophets and went roaring out of those gilded hills for hopefully ever. There was no traffic getting to Sacramento; it took me just twenty minutes to hit the I-5 North juncture and after that I went peeling up the central flatlands with 500 miles to fly in, each one of them cool and green. I’m realizing now this is the only way to travel: don’t expect to come back.

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