I’ve added a new menu to my stories page. It was easy to see all the stories as they sat in the blog format back when there were only a couple of them, but now that I’ve posted a dozen Lazy Allen Stories, the new… Read More
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Bananas Foster – the new Lazy Allen Story is up
I’ve posted the latest installment of The Lazy Allen Stories. It’s called Bananas Foster. I hope you enjoy it (and the others in the group as well). For those of you who haven’t read any of these short-short stories, I’ve been posting them more or… Read More
Someone stole the kishka
In one of my Lazy Allen stories, My Dog’s Bigger than your Dog, I mentioned the Clown Prince of Polka, Walter Solek. In the story, the narrator, Lazy Allen, tells his buddy Staashu about the day he played poker with Walt Solek at a stag… Read More
The Lazy Allen Stories – first supporters on Patreon
When I started writing The Lazy Allen Stories, I didn’t really know what to do with them. I started posting them on this blog, then built a place for them of their own. I looked at maybe submitting them to literary magazines, but that didn’t… Read More
Storytime: Jerzy the Rounder
I’ve published the 8th story in my series of short-short stories – The Lazy Allen Stories – over at my story site. If you enjoy short fiction, please head on over and give Jerzy the Rounder and my other stories a read. I’d love to… Read More
New Podcast + New Story Site
Episode 7 of the 27th Street Podcast is now available. In this episode I read 3 of my Lazy Allen Stories. The stories featured are The Bottle & Can, Star Beauty, and My Dog’s Bigger than your Dog. The music on the podcast is me… Read More
Storytime: The Bottle & Can Concerto
As regular visitors know, I’ve been posting some short-short stories here at 27th Street. These are all part of a series of pieces I call The Lazy Allen Stories. They’re set, or at least they’re being told in 1982 in Toronto, and they’re all stories… Read More
My Dog’s Bigger than your Dog
Here’s a new story I wrote in the growing collection of short-short stories I call The Lazy Allen Stories. I hope you enjoy it. This is a work of fiction; I made it up. Comments are appreciated as always (I have thick skin). My Dog’s… Read More
BoomBoom and Ndidi
Here is the 3rd installment of The Lazy Allen Stories. You can also read The Bottle & Can as well as Star Beauty on this blog. These short-short stories are works of fiction – I made them up. Any resemblance to real humans, living or… Read More
Star Beauty
For a long time, ok for years, I’ve been messing about with a novel. It was going to be called No Beer in Heaven. I had a lot of parts to it, in my mind a lot of pretty good parts, but it wasn’t coming… Read More