The Junk Man's Son
JunkManShort fiction about the relationship between a scrap picker and his son, addiction, recovery, and growing up blue collar.
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| Issues | 29 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Audio Excerpt: The Stainless Steel Hubcap Principle
I had a really nice time this morning recording a spoken word version of my short story from the Masculine anthology, “The Stainless Steel Hubcap Principle.”
The reader is Caecelia Key, who has a long and accomplished history in broadcas...
Always Chasing Butterflies
Photo by Fleur on Unsplash
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In the dream, I go to a house and walk into its dimly lighted living room. Two poems are projected on the wall. A stranger tells me, “Your poems are incredible.”
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How is this possible? I’m not a poet....
Jack & Tim Go Scrap Metal Collecting
In March 2023, I started using ChatGPT to help me research my masters thesis on teaching English as a second language. It was my ticket out of freelance writing and into an even LOWER paying profession.
I started playing around with ChatGP...
RIVERS Part 2 of 2—a Short Story
Co-written with
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The mudflats and reedy islets sit in the crook of an isthmus of sand, Short Beach, dressed in stalky wheat-colored dune grass and squat stands of beach plum trees. Exposed at low tide, the mud exh...
RIVERS Part 1 of 2—a Short Story
Written by and Daniel Pendick, aka
US Fish & Wildlife Service: usfwsnortheast.wordpress.com/tag/american-eel
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Jerry leans an inch too far over the rusty iron railing, trying to see the eels below—the old fat ones gathered in the sha...
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I teach English as a second language and write short fiction. I started my life as a blue-collar boy in Nassau County, Long Island, and my "junk man" stories draw on that experience.
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