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Happy Numbers

July 30, 2015by Danny Ward 1 Comment

The discovery of the existence of Happy Numbers, on a July Tuesday morning last year, made Kevin McCormack smile and laugh. In fact, it simply put him over the moon – […]

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The Retirement Party

June 24, 2013by Danny Ward 3 Comments

The retirement party for Peterkin was quiet and short lived. Most barely knew he worked there and had no idea he was retiring or that someday they would as well. […]

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The Nine

September 15, 2012by Danny Ward 2 Comments

  The screeching howl of grinding metal resonated through Father Jerba’s two-story, one bedroom house that sat on the north end of campus.  The crash and rumble startled him out […]

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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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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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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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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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