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Authors: Kevin Sampsell

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Portland Noir

This collection is comprised of works of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors’ imaginations. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published by Akashic Books

© 2009 Akashic Books

Series concept by Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple

Portland map by Sohrab Habibion

ePUB ISBN-13: 978-1-936-07043-5

ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-79-8

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008937354

All rights reserved

Akashic Books

PO Box 1456

New York, NY 10009

[email protected]

www.akashicbooks.com

A
LSO IN THE
A
KASHIC
N
OIR
S
ERIES:

Baltimore Noir
, edited by Laura Lippman

Bronx Noir
, edited by S.J. Rozan

Brooklyn Noir
, edited by Tim McLoughlin

Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics,
edited by Tim McLoughlin

Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth
edited by Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock

Chicago Noir,
edited by Neal Pollack

D.C. Noir
, edited by George Pelecanos

D.C. Noir 2: The Classics,
edited by George Pelecanos

Delhi Noir
(India), edited by Hirsh Sawhney

Detroit Noir
, edited by E.J. Olsen & John C. Hocking

Dublin Noir
(Ireland), edited by Ken Bruen

Havana Noir
(Cuba), edited by Achy Obejas

Istanbul Noir
(Turkey), edited by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler

Las Vegas Noir
, edited by Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce

London Noir
(England), edited by Cathi Unsworth

Los Angeles Noir
, edited by Denise Hamilton

Manhattan Noir
, edited by Lawrence Block

Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics,
edited by Lawrence Block

Miami Noir,
edited by Les Standiford

New Orleans Noir
, edited by Julie Smith

Paris Noir
(France), edited by Aurélien Masson

Queens Noir
, edited by Robert Knightly

Rome Noir
(Italy), edited by Chiara Stangalino & Maxim Jakubowski

San Francisco Noir,
edited by Peter Maravelis

San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics,
edited by Peter Maravelis

Seattle Noir
, edited by Curt Colbert

Toronto Noir
(Canada), edited by Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore

Trinidad Noir
, Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason

Twin Cities Noir
, edited by Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz

Wall Street Noir
, edited by Peter Spiegelman

F
ORTHCOMING:

Barcelona Noir
(Spain), edited by Adriana Lopez & Carmen Ospina

Boston Noir
, edited by Dennis Lehane

Copenhagen Noir
(Denmark), edited by Bo Tao Michaelis

Haiti Noir
, edited by Edwidge Danticat

Indian Country Noir
, edited by Liz Martínez & Sarah Cortez

Lagos Noir
(Nigeria), edited by Chris Abani

Lone Star Noir
, edited by Bobby Byrd & John Byrd

Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics
, edited by Denis Hamilton

Mexico City Noir
(Mexico), edited by Paco I. Taibo II

Moscow Noir
(Russia), edited by Natalia Smirnova & Julia Goumen

Mumbai Noir
(India), edited by Altaf Tyrewala

Orange County Noir
, edited by Gary Phillips

Phoenix Noir
, edited by Patrick Millikin

Richmond Noir
, edited by Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry & Tom De Haven

T
ABLE OF
C
ONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Page

Introduction

PART I: BLOODLINES

K
AREN
K
ARBO
                                 
S.E. Twenty-Eighth Avenue
The Clown and Bard

L
UCIANA
L
OPEZ
                                                             
St. Johns
Julia Now

A
RIEL
G
ORE
                                                                      
Clinton
Water under the Bridge

F
LOYD
S
KLOOT
                                                         
Oaks Bottom
Alzheimer’s Noir

D
AN
D
E
W
EESE
                                                             
Highway 30
The Sleeper

PART II: CROOKS & COPS

J
ONATHAN
S
ELWOOD
                                                
Mount Tabor
The Wrong House

M
ONICA
D
RAKE
                                                         
Legacy Good
Baby, I’m Here
                                                     
Samaritan Hospital

B
ILL
C
AMERON
                                                        
Seven Corners
Coffee, Black

J
AMIE
S. R
ICH
& J
OËLLE
J
ONES
                       
Montgomery Park
Gone Doggy Gone

J
ESS
W
ALTER
                                                               
Pearl District
Virgo

C
HRIS
A. B
OLTON
                                         
Powell’s City of Books
The Red Room

PART III: DESOLATION CITY

J
USTIN
H
OCKING
                                                 
Burnside Skatepark
Burnside Forever

Z
OE
T
ROPE
                                              
S.E. Eighty-Second Avenue
Hummingbird

G
IGI
L
ITTLE
                                                                       
Old Town
Shanghaied

M
EGAN
K
RUSE
                                                        
Powell Boulevard
Lila

K
IMBERLY
W
ARNER
-C
OHEN
                                    
Sandy Boulevard
People Are Strange

About the Contributors

INTRODUCTION

C
RIME AND
U
NREST IN
U
TOPIA

I
wonder how people think of Portland from the outside. Is it a hippie haven where everyone reads Ken Kesey and hangs out at open mike night? Is it the gray, grungy, junkie-riddled streets of early Gus Van Sant movies? A cheap, trendy town full of myopic record labels and zinesters? Sex worker paradise? Bookstore heaven? A place where New Yorkers come to feel important and/or relaxed? Some wet old logging town that somehow became “one of the best cities in America”?

Yeah, it’s all that and a fancy coffee spilled on your Gore-Tex jacket (the same one you soiled with microbrew last night).

People who live in Portland love being here, despite its imperfections. We tend to love our mayors (even the currently scandalous Sam Adams) despite the sketchy police force, and we cherish the great public transportation even when every other neighborhood is being torn up for renovation. The restaurants are amazing and the music scene seems like it’s in a perpetual heyday. If Portland was Seattle’s kid nephew in the past, these days it’s more like Seattle is our creepy old uncle. (Sorry, I didn’t mean to get off track.)

I moved here in summer of 1992. I grew up in Eastern Washington and lived in a few places before this (even Seattle). I’m not ashamed to admit that I moved here partly because of Powell’s, the giant bookstore, where I eventually started working. I wanted to live in a city that valued reading and geeked out on books.

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