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Expedition
80 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2025
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Valerie Vogrin
7 books9 followersValerie Vogrin is the author of the novel Shebang. Her collection Things We’ll Need for the Coming Difficulties was awarded the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.
Her short stories have appeared in print in journals such as Ploughshares, AGNI, and The Los Angeles Review, online at Hobart and Bluestem, and in The Best Small Fictions 2015. In 2010 she was awarded a Pushcart Prize.
She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She lives with her husband, dog, and cat on a tiny unnamed lake in Moro, Illinois.
Her short stories have appeared in print in journals such as Ploughshares, AGNI, and The Los Angeles Review, online at Hobart and Bluestem, and in The Best Small Fictions 2015. In 2010 she was awarded a Pushcart Prize.
She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She lives with her husband, dog, and cat on a tiny unnamed lake in Moro, Illinois.
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December 22, 2025
Journey of Discovery
What if the most dangerous part of an expedition isn’t where you go, but what you lose when you come back?
In Expedition, Valerie Vogrin opens with a woman returned from overseas work stripped of her memory, and knowing only two things: something went wrong and no one believes her. From that fracture, Vogrin crafts a quietly devastating psychological mystery—a hauntingly intimate journey into a woman’s search for truth.
Blending dry humor with moments of deep unease, Vogrin keeps the narrative simultaneously accessible and unsettling. The novella lingers like half-remembered dreams—disorienting, compelling and ultimately profound.
What if the most dangerous part of an expedition isn’t where you go, but what you lose when you come back?
In Expedition, Valerie Vogrin opens with a woman returned from overseas work stripped of her memory, and knowing only two things: something went wrong and no one believes her. From that fracture, Vogrin crafts a quietly devastating psychological mystery—a hauntingly intimate journey into a woman’s search for truth.
Blending dry humor with moments of deep unease, Vogrin keeps the narrative simultaneously accessible and unsettling. The novella lingers like half-remembered dreams—disorienting, compelling and ultimately profound.
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