Archive for April 2008

Derek, Portland

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 3 April 2008, with no comments so far.

From 400 Words, Issue 1
by Derek—Age 33—Portland, OR

I now reside in Portland, Oregon. I arrived here two years ago in a beat-up truck with everything I owned crammed into the bed and cab. I was fleeing Lee’s Summit, Missouri, where I had worked for a shady sub-contractor for the Justice Department—blowing the whistle led […]