Confluence: Stories

by Guy Harrison

Confluence brings together twenty stories set along the rivers, ridgelines, and reservations of Alaska, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest, where the land feels alive—watchful, ancient, and never quite neutral. In these stories, a badger drags a snakebitten woman to safety and treats her wound, an elk hunter's bullet finds something that hasn't been human for years, an activist uses her musical gifts to protect a place that cannot protect itself, and a grizzly bear that may be an ancient shaman follows a man with a broken leg down a hundred miles of Alaskan river, testing whether he deserves to survive.
These stories show what people reveal when the ordinary disappears—when a grizzly blocks the trail, when the river shifts, or when a voice in the woods sounds almost human. Drawing from Salish storytelling and the simple beauty of Alaska, and the Northern Rockies, Guy blends magical realism into landscapes described so clearly you can almost smell woodsmoke and sage. Here, the supernatural is not a spectacle but something the land has always understood.
Confluence is a collection about staying true under pressure, the delicate balance between people and wild places, and those moments—sudden, bright, and impossible to earn—that make a person reconsider what it means to be alive. Thank you for looking!

205 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 6, 2026

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