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I’m here. I quit my job. But the cabin was empty…that night she didn’t come back. Or the next. Or the night after that…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/314d5b28-c533-4b80-96a2-e1b7461c8c23/WorksandDaysnew2.jpg Fiction - “Brooks Range” That same wild woman and her struggle between her love for Alaska and her love for the man. “…Everything in her life had been replaceable. She preferred it that way. Her rusty knives and old rifles… The beat up trucks she drove. Everything. Until him. If she was tired of a place she picked up and left…She'd never had a problem replacing people, either. Never. 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Watching my hands grip the barrel. Pull it from the rack. Fingering the trigger, I cocked the hammer on my way out the door…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/1680214161710-THWYR1PJLF0NPJNW1LIQ/image-asset.jpg Fiction https://www.iverarnegard.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2023-04-03 https://www.iverarnegard.com/poetry daily 0.75 2023-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/1461084928835-OUS8OB1LY7HS541B14QT/7x7.jpg Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/1450045081928-WD1WODFJ81QPKUDYUU1J/Blue+Collar+Review.jpg Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/f4c05e0d-221b-4d3f-99ae-d076f205ef44/shadowslandscape.jpg Poetry - Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/1450044906217-8EYYGFYC343FR4O0CC5S/image-asset.jpeg Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/1450045013194-WK1NG6BHZQKCMWHEDY8S/image-asset.jpeg Poetry https://www.iverarnegard.com/credentials daily 0.75 2023-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/0817af66-38f7-46b3-8eb2-d6bf60374aee/tundra-landscape.jpg Credentials - Credentials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/5e699a51-de0d-4b9f-8f92-2d1f1c70a47f/cvpage1crop2.jpg Credentials Here is my CV- click the button below to download a copy as a PDF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55ff12ede4b048fe85990f85/31b86769-414d-46e7-9bdc-18594ab85c88/PhD350.jpg Credentials Here is my PhD- Hanging on the wall in my virtual office waiting room, for you to look at. 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