real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan Monday, January 24, 2022 The Chicago Pearl Necklace by Tom Sheehan <i>Twenty-nine grandchildren are kept in thrall of their seafaring grandfather, his mysterious adventures, and the beautiful pearl necklace he gifted to their grandmother; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> The only heirloom my grandmother had was her pearl necklace, a gift from Grandfather, the single piece of property she clung to during the Depression and the years that followed. It was cached for years in a small b… Read more Labels: real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan 4 comments:
long stories real life stories Tom Sheehan Friday, January 14, 2022 The Night Song Singer of Broken Halleluiahs by Tom Sheehan <i>A mysterious midnight singer causes a stir in Sgt. Culberson's sleepy neighbourhood; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> For the third night in a row, Cavan Woodmarsh (long, lean, young, often caught up in a dream) strolled to the far end of Riverside Cemetery with a guitar over his shoulder in a case the long road had beaten up as badly as old shoes. Most things about him were soft, suitable, acceptable... the l… Read more Labels: long stories real life stories Tom Sheehan 2 comments:
real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, December 24, 2021 Christmas in Lowell by Tom Sheehan <i>Gerard and Muriel Fiddler host their friend William Clougherty while they prepare for a harsh winter; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> It was lucky that the old truck, taken as a throw-in part of a deal, lasted long enough to haul all the firewood from the Breakheart forest before it fell dead in its tracks and was left right where it failed. Now, there was little chance there’d be any Christmas presents for two s… Read more Labels: real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan 2 comments:
fantastic stories short stories Tom Sheehan Monday, August 30, 2021 Scene at Scott's Mill by Tom Sheehan <i>A trio of twelve-year-olds plan to light a stash of fireworks in a long-abandoned mill, in Tom Sheehan's nostalgic mystery. </i><br><br> Old Scott's Mill on the Saugus River, rebuilt in 1847 after a fire, a long-time employer of hard workers at wool and leather goods and lastly boot protection for soldiers in Viet Nam, had given off odd sounds since the day it closed down, a dozen years earlier in a … Read more Labels: fantastic stories short stories Tom Sheehan 3 comments:
criminal stories short stories Tom Sheehan Monday, February 22, 2021 Silas Tully, Mechanized by Tom Sheehan <i>Retired cop Silas Tully investigates how his friend's car could have been stolen and yet not stolen; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br> Silas Tully, enjoying early sun and early coffee, heading into another quiet and lonely day, dropped his newspaper and picked up the phone on the first ring. Old pal Jud Haley said, "Si, something screwy down here at Butch and Tony's. I think my car's been stolen bu… Read more Labels: criminal stories short stories Tom Sheehan 4 comments:
medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan Monday, January 18, 2021 Parkie, Tanker, Tiger of Tobruk by Tom Sheehan <i>World War II veteran Frank Parkinson tells a story he's never before dared tell; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> Hardly with a hop, skip and jump did Frank Parkinson come home from Tobruk, Egypt, North Africa, madness, and World War II in general. A lot of pit stops were made along the way where delicate-handed surgeons and associates did their very best to get him back into working order. From practically ev… Read more Labels: medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan 6 comments:
real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, January 1, 2021 The Man Who Hid Music by Tom Sheehan <i>A traveller fixes up an old, abandoned house, and piques the curiosity of the locals; by Tom Sheehan. <br></i><br> One day at the little house where the dowser used to live, a kind-looking man with a beard came carrying all he owned on an A-frame on his back. He set the A-frame on the ground and looked at the small house needing much work. Muscles moved under his shirt. <br><br>"Whose house is this?" he sa… Read more Labels: real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan 8 comments:
real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, October 16, 2020 The Pennant of Initiation by Tom Sheehan <i>A high school American football team dare each other to hang a girl's panties on the Saugus Centre statue by midnight, and young Johnny Templer knows his naivety will get the better of him; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> Young Johnny Templer, in the summer of his sixteenth year, at the beach on a Saturday afternoon with his crowd, was at a crossroads in his life. Already he had experienced three erections on… Read more Labels: real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan 6 comments:
medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Tom Sheehan Friday, October 9, 2020 The Final Summer by Tom Sheehan <i>Owen Blood dreams of being a baseball superstar, but his career does not play out as expected; by Tom Sheehan. </i><br><br><b> Part One</b><br><br>The batter swung like a great north woodsman, and the ball and bat melded in one sound. As of one mind, the audience rose up and released a roar of tunneling wind, a loud, uproarious, expectant howl, a universal cry late-inning born, a cry of hope that pushed the ball outward tow… Read more Labels: medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Tom Sheehan 5 comments:
medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan Friday, November 15, 2019 Nor Gloom of Night Tom Sheehan <i>Blind, one-legged veteran Jack Carrick relies on audiobooks, and the man who delivers them, to keep him company; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> Upstairs in the front bedroom, blind amid the toss of linens he had known intimately for seven long years, in touch with passing traffic and summer conversations when the windows were open, Jack Carrick lay in the middle of sound, in the middle of darkness. His left leg… Read more Labels: medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan 4 comments:
real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, May 24, 2019 The Rescues of Brittan Courvalais by Tom Sheehan <i>A storied old man has an unusually deep connection with his fresh born grandson, but tragedy nips at his heels; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> It did not come with electricity or a smash of static on the air, but it was there. Brittan Courvalais, five minutes into the darkness of a new day, a streetlight's glow falling through his window like a subtle visitor, was caught on the edge of his chair. Knowledge … Read more Labels: real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan 3 comments:
criminal stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, May 10, 2019 Assault on Mount Carmel by Tom Sheehan <i>At the end of World War II, a gang of small-town crooks foment resentment when they persist with their shady weekly poker game; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> Mount Carmel Road was a quiet dead end in the north section of town. And in the middle of the night when the war in the Far East was over and the radios blared out the news, all the lights went on in all the houses on that blind street, except where the c… Read more Labels: criminal stories short stories Tom Sheehan 4 comments:
criminal stories medium length stories pick of the month Tom Sheehan Monday, January 1, 2018 Shag DeBrillen, Brickie (or The Usual Flat-out Failure at Most Things Unexceptional) by Tom Sheehan <i>A lowly bricklayer witnesses a possible crime and hears the voice of his mentor in his head coaxing him to rise to the occasion; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> As Shag DeBrillen was about to turn the corner in the suburban area where he lived, he spotted a lone car a short ways down the town road. He whistled. It was an Impala, an oldie, an olden golden, a gem of an antique. With the six ports in the rear end l… Read more Labels: criminal stories medium length stories pick of the month Tom Sheehan 4 comments:
real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, April 7, 2017 Comet with a Nasty Tail by Tom Sheehan <i>Professor Clifton Agnuus brings a prop to impress his new students for the first lecture of term; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> The morning, at the outset, had no promise of being ecstatic, though Professor Clifton Agnuus put the rock into his briefcase. Every time out it was about eight pounds of drama for him, at least at the start of every term, and here he was off on a new year. A storyteller he should hav… Read more Labels: real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan 4 comments:
medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan Sunday, February 28, 2016 Too Much Asia to Erase by Tom Sheehan <i>Businessman Floyd Spahn brings homeless man Chris Banntry a sandwich and meets with a mixed reception; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> Sleep in any odd alley came piecemeal to Chris Banntry (<i>and never luck</i>, he would add, <i>if anything else</i>.) He called it <i>bonesleep</i> or <i>curbsleep</i>, or a number of other things, just as long as minutes of it were sometimes accompanied by a kind darkness. He liked the minutes where his b… Read more Labels: medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan 5 comments:
real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, January 29, 2016 A Bit Rough At the Edges by Tom Sheehan <i>Tom Sheehan's hopeful story of Sarah Beaufort, who doesn't know whether to resent or admire her world-worn mother and absent father.</i><br><br> Sarah Beaufort was a city girl. She knew the tremors of gutter trash, the promise of dust and debris rising in the slightest wind, what was surely heading down the road to her... and the whole lot coming for her single-parent mother, Abbie. And Abbie, bereft… Read more Labels: real life stories short stories Tom Sheehan 4 comments:
long stories pick of the month real life stories Tom Sheehan Tuesday, August 4, 2015 One Oh for Tillie by Tom Sheehan <i>Mike, thirteen years old and blossoming into adolescence, spends a memorable summer at the farm of his father's friend in Tom Sheehan's intimate and lyrical coming-of-age tale.</i><br><br> It didn't announce itself, the difference in the room, but it was there, of that he was positive. It wasn't the soft caress of the new blanket, or the deeply sensed mattress he'd never slept on before, … Read more Labels: long stories pick of the month real life stories Tom Sheehan 2 comments:
fantastic stories short stories Tom Sheehan Sunday, March 15, 2015 V for Victor by Tom Sheehan <i>Tom Sheehan writes about his tone-deaf schoolfriend who, once every five years, is possessed by a miraculous singing voice.</i><br><br> I saw it all, from the very beginning, heard it all, too, every word rising on the air... in our first classroom, in church, everywhere it happened, you name the place and I was there. Unannounced it came. From the heavens it must have come, taking over his soul, his body, h… Read more Labels: fantastic stories short stories Tom Sheehan 3 comments:
fantastic stories short stories Tom Sheehan Friday, August 22, 2014 Swan River Daisy by Tom Sheehan <i>Chester McNaughton Connaughton buys a new parcel of land and finds himself in trouble with the local Saxonish authorities when a large paddle steamer appear in the middle of his field; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> Chester McNaughton Connaughton, aptly named for both sides of the family, landowner in the new world, squeezer of pennies and nickels and the very corpulence of coin, embarrassed at times by his own… Read more Labels: fantastic stories short stories Tom Sheehan 3 comments:
medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan Friday, March 21, 2014 The Congo Kid Comes Home (or The Sailor Goes Horseback) by Tom Sheehan <i>Black navy man Raven Narbaught crosses the continent to reunite with his family in post civil war America; by Tom Sheehan.</i><br><br> Raven Narbaught received the letter at Boston's Charlestown Navy Yard when his ship landed on the 8th day of December in 1879. He'd been a sailor attached to or on the USS Alliance, a screw gunboat, since it was launched four years earlier at Norfolk Navy Yard, and h… Read more Labels: medium length stories real life stories Tom Sheehan 3 comments:
