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Surviving Breach

March 6, 2015by Danny Ward 2 Comments

“It began in the south. Temperatures continued to rise and what they called the o-zone layer, which protected the Earth, was failing. In their attempt to fix it, they created […]

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Beyond Breach

December 5, 2014by Danny Ward 1 Comment

He stares at the visual monitor like he expects to see something out there. He won’t. He tells me to slow down, afraid the engines will overheat and that we’ll […]

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Breach

November 6, 2014by Danny Ward 4 Comments

They argue with each other that they know the etchings on the wall, as they call them, are from before The Shift. I find that hard to believe, because the […]

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Dark Hair and Green Eyes

August 23, 2013by Danny Ward 3 Comments

It wasn’t so much that William hated his siblings. He had simply come to the conclusion that there was no way they were related. He was the only brunette in […]

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More Than a Love Story

March 16, 2013by Danny Ward 8 Comments

They met at a wedding.  It was his best friend and her cousin.  It was 1978.  At the time, he was living in San Diego.  She was working through her […]

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The Less Than Curious Tale of Jiminy Bean

July 17, 2012by Danny Ward 4 Comments

The sordid half-truths that have been misrepresented as fact regarding the younger years of Jiminy Bean’s incredible life did not all come from his mother.  She was a seamstress of […]

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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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Danny Ward

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

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  • 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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