"Donnelly" - a sample chapter from the new novella, Free Range Men
Donnelly’s favorite line is “I’d love for you to buy me dinner sometime.”
It’s meant to be funny. He considers it suave. Sometimes it works—usually on women at a quarter-past-two in the morning, in the parking lot of The Galaxy, or Pink’s, or some other club—after several hours of ass-shaking music. They say, “Okay, yeah.” Then the echo of what he has said manages to rise up above the ghost of the heavy bass. “You want me to buy you dinner?” Stone-faced, Donnelly says, “Okay. How’s tomorrow night for you?” The women, thinking they’d heard wrong, sometimes agree, anyway.
I’ve seen it happen.
'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
High school student Kevin Borden has a secret and his name is Louis Lannegan. He also has an overbearing mother. A tale of coming out in the shadow of parents and friends. Award winning novella.
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