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Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore

Also Henry – Part XXXVII

Jul 26th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

Jim Hedgerow was the boss of Riverbank Cemetery’s burial crew, and this morning he was scratching to make sure he had enough help to “open up” a few places for “quick deposit.”



Late Bloomers – Part XXXVI

Jul 8th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

Evolution begins with origination, initiation, brainstorm, hunch, self-starter mode, or a plain accident, all which may treat the beginning of an idea, a product, or a belief.



Dress Codes – Part XXXV

Jun 29th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

They flocked into the huge auction barn like two gaggles of geese, light blue and dark blue in dress and bonnets, the Amish ladies on a Saturday night out in Middleton, Ohio.



The Rabbit Versus Turtle Bit – Part XXXIV

Jun 21st, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

It’s happened more than once we know, and this latest race was supposed to end like the others.



A Fable with Gables – Part XXXIII

Jun 15th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

At 33 Nell Pillings was a momma’s girl, always had been, and it didn’t bother her what people said.



The Ugly Frog and the Bigmouth Bass – Part XXXII

Jun 7th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

The trout was a brilliant rainbow, colors of a memorable arc on his underside, and yet, for all his wariness and guile, found he was hooked at the side of his jaw.



A White Lie Black as Hell – Part XXXI

Jun 1st, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

My Dodge window van, 1975 model, was loaded with family, relatives, and a native guide to fishing holes near Lakeville, New Brunswick.



A Western Proposal – Part XXX

May 24th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

A fanatic reader of western stories, a dreamer of the wide and far land and what it had to offer, Fenwick Mercer had come all the way from Boston to find his way in the western plains.



The Last of the Roses – Part XXIX

May 18th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

That morning I was a thorn between two roses.



On the Road with Max Cargo – Part XXVIII

May 11th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series

It all began perhaps eight or nine years earlier, in a peaceful sleep, when a thin, shoelace-like string of pressure went around his chest for the third time in a week. Sixty-two year old Max Cargo paid attention to that string. It was three o’clock in the morning and his wife Pamela stirred casually at [...]