Back then, I fly fished the section of The River above the escarpment every chance I got. We called it The Brook Trout Water, because there were no browns above the falls. Early in the season when the Hendricksons were coming off, I’d park by… Read More
When I was a young lad, I watched my dad and my big brother Joe get ready for their fishing trips, load up the station wagon and take off up north somewhere or other. When they returned, they brought stories of their adventures and sometimes… Read More
Regular readers of this blog may recall I wrote a bunch of little stories a while back. They’re now available as a book on Amazon. These 16 short-short stories are told by Lazy Allen. Once upon a time, Lazy was in the music business, squeeze… Read More
Between October 2015 and March 2017, I wrote a series of very short stories I called the Lazy Allen Stories. I posted them them to a blog site and made them available for anyone who wanted to read them, a small crowd as it turned… Read More
The second story in my new Work suite of stories is now up. It’s called Art Job.
Now that I’ve completed the 17 short-short stories which make up the serial I call The Lazy Allen Stories, I’ve decided to continue to write really short stories. The new stories – called Work – will share neither a group of characters nor a story-line.… Read More
The latest – and final – Lazy Allen story is up. I’d like to thank the folks who supported this project and also everyone who clicked over to the stories page and read one of more of these pieces. There are 17 stories in all.… Read More
As some of you know, I’ve been writing a series of short-short stories called The Lazy Allen Stories, and putting them up on their own site for anyone who wants to read them. There are 16 of them up now. These stories, set in 1982,… Read More
The 16th installment of The Lazy Allen Stories is now online. It’s called The Producer. In this story, The New Polka Kings get a recording contract. The Big Time is just around the corner. These stories are told by Lazy Allen, a seemingly washed up… Read More
From the shameless self-promotion department: For those who have missed it, I’ve published a group of stories (15 and counting) in serial format at a blog site, eugeneknapikstories.com. These are short-short fiction under the title The Lazy Allen Stories. They are set in 1982 in… Read More
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