This week, I will conclude the novella Goodbye to All That with an expected date which seems to go awry. Expect this to go on a little longer than usual.

Next week, a short story, again from The Coin Jar. The First Slow Dance is a fictionalized piece of autobiography taken from an event which occurred fifty years ago this month. Grab some popcorn and join us next Thursday, won’t you?

Be Seeing You!

We are about to get into a tale of two Warrens. Warren Smith and Warren DuBois. Both are headed to Ding’s, the Chinese restaurant in Prentiss, for a Friday night date. Mr. Smith plans a date initiated by Jeannie Turner to spy on her erstwhile boyfriend, Will Chaney, while Mr. DuBois hopes to meet his ex-wife to apologize to her for his “extracurricular activities”.  This will make more sense with today’s reading – and even more sense when we get further into the story. Enjoy.

This week in Goodbye to All That, Will goes to church, does his laundry and buys a pair of shoes. Action takes place on Wednesday evening and during the day on Thursday. His big date is coming up on Friday evening, but while he prepares, he’s spending time thinking about the woman he’d just thrown over for Gwen Martin.

Getting this week’s reading out just a tad early so that the day job can be attended to.

Enjoy!

Today, a double-header.

First on the agenda, two more chapters of Goodbye to all That… in which our former starlet meets Will Chaney’s steady girlfriend..

 

Second, in honor of what would have been my father’s 94th birthday today (January 12), a story he wrote about a Welsh surveyor’s adventure in the early Ohio country.

By the way, my father shares a birthday with an infamous historical figure. It had been my habit to call my mother on January 12th to mark the occasion for the better part of the past twenty years. The occasion is a family “in” joke. I say a little more about it in the audio portion of my father’s story.

Until next week…

Two more chapters of the novella Goodbye to All That… this week, Will goes on a date with his idol, while feeling compelled to worm his way out of a long-standing date with Jeannie Turner.

Next week, I might just change things up… there’s a short story which appears in The Coin Jar written by my late father. (I may counter with two posts next week)

By the way, in today’s chapters, there is reference to Saving Magnolia.

Be Seeing You!

 

As will be explained in this week’s audio introduction, Goodbye to All That is the name of a fictional television program aired in Canada some years ago. It’s also the title of a novella, included in The Coin Jar, a collection of short stories and a pair of novellas – most of them mine (one is a story written by my late father) available through Amazon.com.

Just a note of caution – this week’s reading lasts roughly half an hour. This pilgrim decided to stop the narrative at what seemed an appropriate spot, and was surprised when the appropriate spot came in at thirty minutes and change.

Until next Thursday…

Here are the last two chapters of Epiphany. Still technically a first draft, but by publishing it in this form, it is protected by Copyright.

Note that I get a little caught up in the emotion toward the end. My apologies in advance.

There are elements which need to be revised in the final version. A second draft will be forthcoming.

Next week – I will start a story published in “The Coin Jar”, featuring an encounter in Magnolia with an obscure television actor… Join me, will you?

Just a tad late this time – the author has a cold as well as the sniffles and a raspy voice. If you’d like, you can now catch up with three of the last five chapters of Epiphany. Next week, the part you’ve been waiting for… the end!