title: Life Without Fiction: Collected Stories
author: Dana Furgerson
description: Dana was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Lombard, a suburb. She currently lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her cat Daisy, her dog Hank, and her four chickens. She has lived in various places throughout the state in both rural and urban settings. Her son, Keith, teaches art, and her daughter-in-law, Alissa, is a cartographer. She has two granddaughters, Dahlia and Hazel. She taught special education for over thirty years. For the most part, her students were at risk high school age youth, mostly boys, whose troubled lives inspired two novels. She has also written three novels and a collection of short stories about relationships and other contemporary issues. Dana trail-runs at least five times a week. In the winter she cross country skis, and in the summer she backpacks the wilderness of the Cascades. She's an avid gardener. Her other artistic outlets are drawing and wood carving.
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and
  any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
  means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any
  information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the
  author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
  
  Copyright (c) 2017 by Angel Devlin
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Cover by Lianne Cotton. Photo from Adobe Stock.
  
   _This book is dedicated to Tammy Clarke_
  
   _Whose cover designs spark my writing mojo._
  
   _This book would not exist without you_
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
  >  _Al