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by J. C. Ellefson

Foreign Tales of Exemplum and Woe

Under the Influence: Shoutin’ Out to Walt

 In Conversations with the Underground, stories, poems, plays, and even a short film serve as portals through which the disembodied return and put on their traveling shoes. A Bodhisattva appears at the Plainfield, VT Farmers’ Market, a Jaguar driving priest rescues a hypothermic hitchhiker, and a drowned man and his dog return to change a woman’s mind. Set in “all the old familiar places” ranging from hardscrabble Vermont; the night highways of New York State; a shrimp boat in Lafayette, Louisiana; a restaurant terrace in Madrid, Conversations with the Underground reminds us that, yes, novelist Tim O'Brien was right: “Stories can save us.”

About the Author

At one time or another, J.C. Ellefson has made his living as a hired hand, a blacksmith, and a fiddler in an old-timey band. He has taught at Shanghai International Studies University, the Universidade Dos Acores, and he has had poetry and short fiction published in magazines throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Japan. At this time, Jim teaches writing and literature at Champlain College.