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Bar Belmont
When I first moved to Dallas, over thirty years ago, I lived with some friends in Kessler Park, in Oak Cliff for a while until I saved enough money to get an apartment. I was working downtown and rode...
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NYLO Hotel Roof
Last weekend, Candy and I drove down to the Bishop Arts District for lunch at Eno’s and on the way back, we decided – spur of the moment thing – to stop off at a spot Candy had seen on the web. There...
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Rainy Day in New Orleans
New Orleans is over a hundred miles from the ocean, but it is barely dry. Rain comes quickly and unexpectedly… except it is always expected. Luckily, there is a source of refuge in the Big Easy –...
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Renos
“On my tombstone they will carve, “IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century Deep...
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Taking Flight
A “Heavy Hitter” flight at Luck, in Trinity Groves. Heavy Hitter beer flight at Luck, in Trinity Groves, Dallas, Texas From left to right: Velvet Hammer, from Peticolas Brewing Company – One of my...
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A Month of Short Stories 2014, Day 6 – A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
A year ago, for the month of June, I wrote about an online short story each day for the month. It seemed like a good idea at the time. My blog readership fell precipitously and nobody seemed to give a...
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Bartender and Regular
Molly’s was home to the demimonde, to artists, journalists, retired teachers, lawyers, politicians, cops, and people of uncertain description. Laura and I wrote poetry together there, sometimes with...
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Dancing With the Dead
“He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a little room on the second floor of a hotel, a room with wide windows and a balcony that...
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A Month of Short Stories 2017, Day 22 – before the storm By Alex Sheal
Have a drink. Over several years, for the month of June, I wrote about a short story that was available online each day of the month…. It seemed like a good idea at the time. My blog readership fell...
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Superiority To the Sleeping World
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” ― Leonard Cohen Above the bar, Three Links, Deep Ellum, Dallas, TexasAncient Mystic Order of SamaritansAMOS, Xerxes...
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A Conversation at Molly’s
“The beauty of Molly’s is that it is not, whether in the daytime or at night, the exclusive preserve of an age or income group. Unlike the sterile night scenes of pretentious San Francisco or New York,...
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Morning Has Broken
Morning has broken like the first morning Blackbird has spoken like the first bird Praise for the singing Praise for the morning Praise for them springing fresh from the world —-Yusuf Islam (Cat...
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Short Story Of the Day (flash fiction) – A Man Walks Into a Bar in...
I went home with a waitress the way I always do How was I to know she was with the Russians, too? I was gambling in Havana, I took a little risk Send lawyers, guns, and money Dad, get me out of this ―...
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Short Story Of the Day (flash fiction) – Blue Rooster by Bill Chance
“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally This woman, a bartender at the NYLO...
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Short Story Of the Day (flash fiction) – Sherman’s March by Bill Chance
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell” ― General Philip Henry Sheridan Deep Ellum Brewing Company’s Lineup I have been feeling in a deep hopeless rut lately, and I’m...
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