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Dinner For Three

June 10, 2012by Danny Ward 4 Comments

I had seen the knife in her bag before we left the apartment that day. It seemed out of place, and had I not been so distracted, I may have […]

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Making Time

May 31, 2012by Danny Ward 3 Comments

Most people assumed when Geoff Lawson invented his revolutionary time travel device, the breakthrough would first be used to better mankind, to gain some knowledge of our inception, to break […]

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The Sleeping Chair

May 25, 2012by Danny Ward 1 Comment

Martin Brewster, owner and operator of Martin Brewster Cooling in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, has a large, used, brown La-Z-Boy in the guest bedroom of his three bedroom home that he […]

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A Tree of His Own

May 17, 2012by Danny Ward 3 Comments

The strange thing about the small house, located at 17 Orchard Road, just a bit off from Route 2, was the apple tree that grew through the center of the […]

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Simple Story

April 1, 2012by Danny Ward 4 Comments

Break ups. They are painful. They suck, for lack of a better word. Joe’s being broken up with right now. He doesn’t know it yet. She’s just started talking about […]

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En Wittium Testivari

March 5, 2012by Danny Ward 7 Comments

It was singed into the desk deeper than I imagined possible in wood that thick. Although, I’m not exactly a wood expert. That’s an understatement. I can remember classes, from […]

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The Piece Titled “The Crooked Man”

November 30, 2011by Danny Ward 4 Comments

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked six-pence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. […]

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The Magician’s Death

November 14, 2011by Danny Ward 2 Comments

    There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that Mrs. Barbara Hapsherd had killed her husband and his spotted ragamuffin named The Magician.  She had long since held a […]

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Welcome to Sweden

November 6, 2011by Danny Ward 2 Comments

  Not very long ago, an actor landed at Landvetter Airport in Göteborg, Sweden, carrying two extra large, black, military-style duffel bags that were incredibly difficult to carry, two shoulder […]

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Who is James Grey?

October 31, 2011by Danny Ward 3 Comments

I met a man, once, in the dead of night, at a small unnamed bar on the lower east side of Manhattan. He wasn’t special in any way and certainly […]

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Danny Ward

Born in Detroit. Aged in New York. Matured in Sweden. The Swedish American is an online collection of my short stories.

Posts

  • You Can Call It a Love Story
  • 150 Days
  • A Diatribe: Fact vs. Opinion
  • A Letter to NYC City Council – June 12, 2020
  • I Vow to Stand
  • Out of Time
  • The Paper Boy
  • The Shift
  • Ten Times a Failure
  • Evelyn’s Brooch
  • Me at 36
  • The Namesake
  • A Mind
  • One Stands
  • Swallowed by Fear
  • To Jack
  • Happy Numbers
  • Everything’s Brighter
  • Grace Olive Kettridge
  • Surviving Breach
  • The Veil
  • Beyond Breach
  • Breach
  • Last Night
  • The Broken Sandals
  • A Son to his Father
  • The Lobby
  • Dark Hair and Green Eyes
  • The Retirement Party
  • Garbage Pick-Up and Removal
  • Empire’s Records
  • More Than a Love Story
  • The Accident
  • A Man and His Hat
  • The Last Time…
  • Melted Gold, Frogs Tongues, and Candy Bars
  • The Real Nightmare
  • Tom’s Wednesday Dinners
  • The Downfall
  • The Sunday Wine
  • Dancer in the Water
  • The Nine
  • The Sheriff’s Decline
  • The Friends We Keep
  • Ratings Game
  • Life, Sincerely…
  • The Less Than Curious Tale of Jiminy Bean
  • Curiously Strong
  • The First of Many
  • Waking Tears
  • Dinner For Three
  • Making Time
  • The Sleeping Chair
  • A Tree of His Own
  • Simple Story
  • En Wittium Testivari
  • The Piece Titled “The Crooked Man”
  • The Magician’s Death
  • Welcome to Sweden
  • Who is James Grey?
  • The Blogger
  • The Barista
  • The Interview
  • The Proposal

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