Stories
While living through the happenings and meeting with the characters gathered into the Memoir “Beyond Belief,” I was all the while writing and publishing stories and articles about the same happenings and characters as they affected me at the time in the moment. On topics such as: fishing, religion, the Bible, women, race relations, industrial farming, the sea, rivers, excrement, astronomy, friends, the Civil War, ecology, neighbors with guns, growing up working class, teaching, Jesuit friends then and now, parenting, marriage, raising sheep, medical ethics, Greek and Roman classics, learning languages, jazz. Some stories had wide circulation; many only local as reviews and features in newspapers and dedicated magazines like universities send to their alumni/alumnae. After waiting many years in closed boxes, these stories can provocatively see the light again in the Stories Section of this Web Site. Especially when a story had a different resonance in its day than in the Memoir’s rendition many years later. A different story will be posted monthly, then archived.
Rain in the City is One Song
Rain in the city is one songin many movements. A cranespeaks clear steelhigh in the rain,rain is pizzicato on the street,rain is silver running in a drainwheels a song on tarpuddles bursting in the street.The doors of shops have sound
Ah, Like Dirty Dishes
° AH, we're really going this year," said Father. He patted the little plasticmoosehead that hung on the wall by the fishing poles. Ralph looked up froma Cheever short story. Father's eyes shone with water and emotion, and he prayedout loud:"The Rock Bound Coast of Maine."
A Going Away Present
Twenty one years ago, Brother George, Brother Hugh and I celebrated my 21st birthday in a field on the side of a small mountain in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts.
Cow Paths Towards a More Perfect Union
Jan A. Wojcik Cowpaths Towards a More Perfect Union North Country Writers Contest 2019 Winner, Nonfiction