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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RIVERS Part 2 of 2—a Short Story
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SEVEN
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
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ONE
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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Some years ago, I attended this major national medical conference in Washington, D.C. I w...
Uncle Always Says the Wrong Thing
He decided to hit the open mic at the Ha Ha Hut in Brooklyn, which packs the house on Christmas night. People come to laugh away the memory of being trapped in a room with their families all day. It made the drive from Jersey out to his bro...
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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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