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\"Flag_of_Oklahoma\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Assuming my issue of EYE SPY<\/i><\/a>, a British glossy devoted to \u201cThe Covert World of Espionage,\u201d can be trusted, between 1973 and 1995 the United States government (and its Chinese and Soviet rivals) spent millions hiring teams of personnel to scry photographs of enemy installations and describe their heretofore unknowable innards. A final report on the Stargate Project, a remote viewing project conducted during these years (preceded by Sunstreak, Dragon Absorb, Centerline, Grill Flame and Gondola Wish), acknowledged a \u201cstatistically observable effect,\u201d albeit one producing information too \u201cvague and ambiguous \u2026 to yield actionable intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

A contemporary remote viewing conducted by Jeff Martin, fiction editor of This Land Press<\/i> and (with C. Max Magee) The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books<\/i>, yielded far better results. Imaginary Oklahoma<\/i><\/a> is an anthology of forty-six writers\u2019 attempts to envision Oklahoma without ever having visited America\u2019s forty-sixth state. Martin, in his introduction to the book, describes his inspiration for the project. He gives nods to Lydia Davis\u2019s collection of super-short stories, with their ability to create \u201cworlds in mere sentences\u201d and \u201cbeautiful questions\u201d from \u201csimple narrative,\u201d and Ed Ruscha\u2019s 1990 painting No Man\u2019s Land<\/i><\/a>, which Martin describes as \u201cThe ghostly outline of the pan-shaped land. The shadowy question mark stretched across the canvas, almost menacing.\u201d It was an excellent pairing of prompts. Imaginary Oklahoma<\/i> manages to raise the stakes of the short-prose form. <\/p>\n

Flash fiction is tricky. There isn\u2019t much room to maneuver. There are two classic strategies: You can do what Charles Baudelaire did in \u201cThe Bad Glazier<\/a>,\u201d and drill tightly down on a single experience. Or you can swing the other way, and open the aperture as wide as you possibly can, and ape Jorge Luis Borges\u2019s A Universal History of Iniquity<\/i>, a collection of cr\u00f3nicas<\/em>, a form of miniature short story that appears in the op-ed pages of Spanish-language newspapers.<\/p>\n

Both strategies rely heavily on implicit knowledge. Baudelaire was so familiar with Paris that his descriptions are almost fractal in their power. Borges did the same thing, only he used genre conventions and schoolboy history to imply setting and description. A bungled setting can ruin a story. Forcing writers to imagine a state they\u2019ve never set foot in\u2014particularly to an audience of readers that will likely consist of Oklahoma residents (This Land Press is most famous for its biweekly literary broadsheet, which is focused on the Sooner State)\u2014doesn\u2019t let them use Borges or Baudelaire as a model. So Imaginary Oklahoma <\/i>is the literary equivalent of a high-wire act.<\/p>\n

Take Matt Bondurant\u2019s contribution, \u201cStillwater,\u201d as an example. He writes about a boy waking up at the bottom of a lake and walking into town each morning. It\u2019s an evocative, beautiful story. But \u201cStillwater\u201d has potent connotations in the Sooner State. I am very new to Oklahoma, and have only the faintest glimmer of what the towns outside of my county are like, but I know enough to imagine the town of Stillwater as a really raucous place. It is a college town, home to football goliath Oklahoma State University (not to mention the National Wrestling Hall of Fame), and they\u2019re famous for dumping bright orange dye into their fountains, so it\u2019s hard to read this elegant, quiet story without it being spoiled by the memory of OSU\u2019s brash, orange marching bands and six-gun-toting mascot.<\/p>\n

Of course I haven\u2019t actually been there, and there is a lake, and for all I know it might be creepy at night\u2014even if it is called Boomer Lake\u2014and all lakes are murky near the bottom. So a real Okie might find it refreshing. So I take that back, I do buy a creepy little boy who floats to the surface of a lake each morning to spy on other children at the playground. The story certainly stuck with me. I just worry about the poor kid getting beaned by an errant football.<\/p>\n

Many Imaginary Oklahoma <\/i>stories grapple with the missing setting by illustrating space. Rebecca Makkai\u2019s \u201cRich Rice from Tulsa\u201d evokes Oklahoma using an object plundered from a drawer. The narrator observes six people in a dorm room looking at a roommate\u2019s photo and trying to imagine Rich Rice from Tulsa, \u201cwho never talks.\u201d Though we never \u201csee\u201d Oklahoma, we feel space\u2014the crowded cube of a dorm room, the drawer sliding open, the cruel redhead who finds Rich Rice\u2019s snapshot inside of that drawer, and the map they draw and the memory of a gun-shaped Oklahoma it triggers.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Rich\u2019s \u201cEnid, Oklahoma\u201d creates space in an even more vivid and literal way. He traps two men, named Ralph and Van, in a \u201cgray concrete room\u201d that is a perfect cube \u201cexcept for a small rectangular cardboard box in one corner.\u201d Their only source of light is an \u201coverhead fluorescent panel\u201d that flickers on in the beginning, and off at the end. Joshua Ferris stops just short of the border in his story \u201cQuapaw, OK, 5\/11\u201d and lets only his shadow fall into the Sooner State. \u201cStand atop this pave for a year and you\u2019d make no impression. Oklahoma is not sensitive<\/i>,\u201d concludes Ferris\u2019s narrator\u2014but alas, neither is he (or she): Quapaw\u2019s skyline is dominated by the billion-dollar Downstream Casino, and the Quapaw Nation is notoriously litigious (and rightfully so\u2014their land is contaminated with heavy metals.)<\/p>\n

Other ways across time and space are explored. Both Tao Lin (\u201cNicolas Cage\u2019s Agent\u201d) and Aletha Black (\u201cOklahoma Exclamation Point\u201d) use online communication and the dudgeon of celebrity culture to realistically render the missing state. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!<\/i> is also frequently used as a jumping off point (as are classrooms and concerts). One of the most successful devices is bodily fluid. Caitlin Horrocks\u2019s elegant \u201cRest Stop\u201d describes a hamburger franchise in a \u201cturnpike service island\u201d as \u201ca pimple, flat-faced Oklahoma stretching clear-skinned around,\u201d while a toddler\u2019s swelling bladder and her mother\u2019s rising temper provide suspense and knit together the economics of lonely freeway towns, a traveler\u2019s demand, and the tension between a couple\u2014and lets it go. (\u201cShow Biz Folk Hero,\u201d by Laurie Notaro, uses the approaching threat of a urine puddle to a similar and quite sublime effect.)<\/p>\n

Out of all the stories, Jonathan Lethem\u2019s \u201cMa Bell\u2019s\u201d would be the most likely to be chosen by an intelligence agency trying to peer into the inner workings of the city of Tulsa. He achieves this using misdirection. Rather than have us swallow the premise of Oklahoma, he presents an even more peculiar distraction: a restaurant in Tulsa with \u201ca phone on every table and you called your order into the kitchen, nice gimmick at the time.\u201d If you can swallow that premise, Tulsa having miniature golf and a hundred-degree weather goes down easy. (Lethem cut his teeth writing science fiction, which may explain his extraordinary ability to evoke alien cities.)<\/p>\n

EYE SPY<\/em>\u2019s Mike Finn compares remote viewing to two people \u201cflat hunting.\u201d One \u201cmay instantly pick up on the \u2018vibes<\/i>\u2019 of a house, believing it to be \u2018friendly<\/i>\u2019 or \u2018sinister<\/i>,\u2019 the other person will be totally indifferent, to them it\u2019s just a house.\u201d There is a sense of loss running through Imaginary Oklahoma<\/i>. There are phantom amputations\u00a0(Rachel Kushner\u2019s \u201cFind Your Oklahoma\u201d) and implanted tendons donated by dead Indians (\u201cArbuckle Rift,\u201d by Nancy Mauro)\u2014even former Sooner State resident Rivka Galchen\u2019s foreword, describing a road trip she took as a teenager, is powered by what appears to be a mysterious leather satchel.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this loss is only the residue of writers telegraphing their frustration with an unknown subject matter, but writers are by nature sensitive people, and to this recent arrival in Oklahoma, Imaginary Oklahoma <\/i>seems to have tapped into something palpable. Oklahoma is a very haunted state. Backcountry roads are said to be visited by glowing spook lights and prowled by wampus cats (a mythological monster said to be a jealous Cherokee wife, who wore a panther skin to follow her husband on a hunting trip, and was caught by the tribe\u2019s medicine man watching a sacred rite. As punishment the medicine man bound the rotting skin to her flesh and chased her into a swamp).<\/p>\n

The state even has a vestigial twin: the proposed state of Sequoyah, now northeastern Oklahoma, which would have encompassed the Five Civilized Tribes, who were forcibly relocated to what was then Indian Country and what is now Oklahoma; tribes whose land was later stolen from them, despite treaties guaranteeing them land in perpetuity and stretching back to the Louisiana Purchase. Imaginary Oklahoma<\/i> has felt the pulse of that secret, sinister history circulating beneath the state.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

And what do real Okies tell stories about? I watched a lecture about the use of symbols at the Cherokee Arts Center in Tahlequah (capital of Cherokee Nation, would-have-been capital of Sequoyah, had Theodore Roosevelt said yes). There were probably fifty people packed into a small metal shop. The center is new, but the building dates back to the nineteenth century, and the walls are thick and made of masonry. A storm raged in the darkness outside. Despite the walls the distant thunder sounded like mortar fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some stories you don\u2019t tell outsiders,\u201d said the lecturer. Someone drew a snake on the blackboard: an Uktena, an evil thing, a blazing, bejewelled serpent as thick as tree trunk that dazzled its prey and ate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t mean to be rude,\u201d said one of the artists in the audience. \u201cBut the Uktena is no myth. My grandfather thought he was stepping on a log near the creek the other night and then that log started to slither.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then someone else chimed in: \u201cIs that why they painted those things all over the casino? Was it a warning?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0James McGirk is a Tahlequah, Oklahoma-based writer. For more information, visit jamesmcgirk.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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