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You Can Call It a Love Story

September 8, 2022by Danny Ward 1 Comment

“It’s never a good time for a giant space lizard to attack.” That’s Embry’s clever response. And he is quite right; there’s never a good time for a giant space […]

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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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The Veil

March 3, 2015by Danny Ward 3 Comments

And yet another year had passed for Russell. He was a bit taller. His facial hair had continued to fill in. He’d replaced one pair of shoes and three shirts. […]

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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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Last Night

October 28, 2014by Danny Ward 3 Comments

My glass was half empty and the conversation was waning so I excused myself and made my way to the bar. The entire event was wearing on me, but Rogers […]

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The Broken Sandals

July 23, 2014by Danny Ward 2 Comments

It wasn’t anger that had kept Jeremy up most of the night. It was something different. Something he couldn’t quite describe when Mr. Larimore Jenkins III asked him why he […]

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A Son to his Father

April 1, 2014by Danny Ward 1 Comment

  He closed his eyes and let the heat absorb into his cracked skin. His phone was still ringing but could barely be heard over the commotion. He felt people […]

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The Lobby

December 21, 2013by Danny Ward 2 Comments

I had been to the Toronto Airport once years prior and had a horrible experience in which they lost my flight.  Seems an impossible thing to have happen, but it […]

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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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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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