Moment of Truth at the Bus Stop – Part XVII
Feb 15th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series | 336 viewsEvery workday morning two men met at the bus stop in their
neighborhood. They had a few moments of morning chatter and then each one began to think ahead to their work day. This ritual went on for months and months until the morning when one man did not show up.
The other man, with no one to say hello to, sort of missed his morning contact. Two weeks passed and the missing man was back at the bus stop, in his usual manner, saying hello to the other man, chatted harmlessly and then stopped talking.
The first man said, “Well, where have you been for two weeks? Did you go on vacation?”
“I was trying to find something to talk about every morning.”
“Did you find it?”
“Not yet, but it’s coming.”
Reticence is often made up of equal parts.
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About Tom Sheehan: Bio note: Tom Sheehan’s books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, from Press 53; A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening, from Pocol Press. His work is currently in new anthologies from Press 53, Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform and Milspeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience. He has 14 Pushcart nominations, the Georges Simenon Award for fiction, a story in the Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009 and a nomination for Best of the Web 2010. His novels include Vigilantes East, Death for the Phantom Receiver and An Accountable Death. His poetry books include The Saugus Book; Ah, Devon Unbowed; and This Rare Earth & Other Flights. He served in Korea, 1951-52, with the 31st Infantry Regiment. He has many Internet and print magazine appearances, has appeared in 11 print issues of Ocean Magazine, has 134 cowboy stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, recorded works in Qarrtsiluni, work in Rosebud, Lady Jane Miscellany, Perigee and Writing Raw, etc. He helped co-edit and issue two books on his hometown of Saugus, MA, sold 3700 to date of 4500 printed ( 842 total pages in the two books) with color sections, text, timelines, nostalgia and history, all proceeds for Saugus High School graduates via the John Burns Memorial Scholarship. Tom’s web site is at http://www.milspeak.org/TomHome2.htm. |
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