There were no walls in the shack and no interior doors. When Louise and Big Hank had sex in the night, ten-year-old Padraig covered his ears. It did not help. The grunting and moaning kept him awake.
'Romance and Revolution' by Kevin O'Rourke of a coming of age tale of a young man's struggle with poverty and racism, and his transcendence of the institutions that attempt to confine him. A selection for Long Story, Short Journal by guest editor Jamie O'Connell. READ 'ROMANCE AND REVOLUTION'.
Our father, Charles Hartley II, hanged himself in the attic in the spring of 1977. I was five years old. My brother Kelly was eleven. May 25th: the same day that Star Wars opened, though I didn’t make that connection until later.
'Salisbury Beach' is the May 2017 offering from Long Story, Short Journal, by author Sean Conway. Visit a seaside town on the decline, where a young boy's life is spinning wildly on carnival's tilt-a-whirl, from his first tastes of both love and bereavement. READ 'SALISBURY BEACH.'
