Permanent Record

by Andrew O. Dugas

The past has a way of catching up with you. In "Permanent Record," a man in his early forties is punished by current events for something he did twenty years before. Originally published in Unlikely Stories 2.0. Andrew O. Dugas's work has appeared in the SoMa Literary Review, edifice WRECKED, and Poems Niederngasse. A graduate of Ithaca College, he is also a two-year veteran of Cornell's Advanced Writing Workshop.

31 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Andrew Dugas's fiction and poetry have appeared in LITnIMAGE, Fiction 365, the SoMa Literary Review, Unlikely Stories 2.0, edifice WRECKED, Bound Off Books, Poems Niederngasse, and elsewhere.

A graduate of Ithaca College, he is also a two-year veteran of Cornell's Creative Writing Workshop.

Sleepwalking in Paradise, a San Francisco novel about old money, the new economy, and the Second Coming, was published in June 2014 byVox Nova, an imprint of Numina Press.

From March 1, 2012 to November 26, 2014, he mailed 1,001 postcards with a hand-inscribed original haiku on it to randomly selected recipients. He currently publishes the Haiku Scout Newsletter, which every week collects haiku from social media into a single newsletter and emails it to subscribers.