Short Stories

My short stories are non-fictional accounts of people and incidents taken from my life. I try to connect the smaller details of our lives to more universal themes and patterns in society at large. 

The Norwood Avenue Chronicles

• Introduction: The Norwood Avenue Chronicles
• A Star Wars Story
• Audio Documentary: News from the Front: Memories of a World War II Refugee
• Gus Lascaris — The Garrulous Greek Guru of Norwood Avenue
• I Now Know Why Salmon Swim Upstream
• Lost, Then Found
• My First Poem: Winter 1978 (poem)
• My Last Fourth of July
• Summer Siren (poem)
• The Curious Case of Rev. C. Christopher Peck, 43
• The Last Conversation
• The Last Days of the Metro Diner
• The Past is Only Ever a Lifetime Away: Thoughts on the Assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand
• Yankee Stadium Doesn’t Exist Anymore

 
The Prison Chronicles

• Introduction: The Prison Chronicles
• Arthur John Shawcross: The Monster on Alexander Street
• Inmate Art
• Justice and Robert Vick
• No Way Jose
• Ode to an Inmate
• The Criminal Underclass and Inmate Higher Education
• True-Life Prison Stories
• Way to Go Slugger

 
Other Stories and Ephemera

• Abbott and Costello Discuss the World Health Organization
• After Arthur: On the Grief of Cats and Humans
• Jesus Drives Stick
• The Dying of Jon Spiller
• Why I Am a Teacher
   

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