Confronting the Boundaries (Paperback or Softback)

Everyday life is full of challenges. Meet Starlight Bernie, an old man alone on a train; Fig Newton, a boy with a peculiar hobby; the Pizza Kid and his dog Rainbow, struggling to forget; the woman in the shroud; a professor who investigates a futuristic love store; a man who wants to end the world as we know it; and many more.

Included in these twenty stories, four poems, and three photo-essays are problems with family relationships, trials in dating and mating rituals, the perils of growing up, observations on social communication and miscommunication, and overcoming inevitable tragedies. And beyond the real, the ordinary and expected? There are places and times where the boundaries shift and limits are less well defined.

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L. Wade Powers, under the name Lawrence W. Powers, has published in the fields of medical technology, ecology, marine biology, and animal behavior. He also published a critical examination of The Winter of Our Discontent for Steinbeck Review, and several articles on natural history and cultural history for Oregon Encyclopedia Online. He has served as a contributing editor for the Journal of the Shaw Historical Library for several years and as the creative nonfiction editor for the Timberline Review. Larry wrote the narrative film script for Fields of Splendor, a 2005 documentary film by Anders Tomlinson. As L. Wade Powers, he has published two novels, The Home (2017) and The Party House (2019) and a collection of short stories, Falling In Love and Other Misadventures (2019). The current and revised edition of his first novel, The Home, was published in November 2019. He is currently at work on a historical novel about Francis Drake in Oregon. This is his second collection of short stories. A retired Professor of Natural Sciences, Larry lives in Eastern Oregon with his wife Alla, with the permission of their cat.