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ionelajo
John Flynn 
http://editred.com/ionelajo
United States, Virginia, Charlottesville
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Trapping (appeared in New England Writers Network)
East of Newport Harbor, where the Atlantic verges into the Narragansett Bay, the crewmen of the...
Short Stories|  Updated:02-01-07
Words:2506|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Granny Was A Plutonian Spy (appeared in Water~Stone from Hamline University)
Granny Was A Plutonian Spy One day Momma would yank his arm out of its socket and there’d be no one around to pick it up. Momma yanked him again. “Move it I said. She ain’t waiting all day.”...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:2693|  Comments:56|  Status:Public

Dreaming Rodin (appeared in the e-zine Outsider Ink)
Dreaming Rodin At the onset of her career, inspired by Gauguin’s Tahitian diary, Geneva Underwood had begun a journal which she kept open on a table next to her easel. When she needed to re-think...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:2943|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Thus Sang The Uncouth Swain (appeared in The Paterson Review)
Thus Sang The Uncouth Swain Sal mopes at the table and watches steam moisten the wallpaper of his mother’s kitchen. Nora Antonioni Prisco never calls it sauce. It's gravy. Sounding a clunk, she...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:4092|  Comments:3|  Status:Public

The Fig Tree (appeared in Voices In Italian Americana, Spring 2004
The Fig Tree The town of Neponset felt colder than usual the winter of my sophomore year, home from North Adams State, baby brother to five raven-haired Petrillo women: Maria, Cora, Helen, Sue, and...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:4214|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

You Remind Me Of A Naughty Springtime Cuckoo (appeared In The Iconoclast #99)
Rollo, you’re named after my Pa, Roland Myles, once known in Beantown burlesque halls as Bones O’Shea. Like many Irish new to America, he eventually dropped the O. He danced buck, wing, waltz,...
Short Stories|  Updated:19-07-08
Words:3438|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

A Good Saying (appeared in Buffalo ArtVoice)
A Good Saying The river escorted a sullen morning. Whitecaps surged and collapsed, hissing as they spread. Wind dimpled the water, stirring aromas of brine, tar and timber rot. Donald Mackie, bovine...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:1689|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Charred Rotater (appeared in Hiss Quarterly)
Charred Rotator Back in the day they called him Divot because of the scar notched in his forehead. A big man, he moves head-first down the street as if diving through it. In red leather jacket with...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:2033|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

The Mango Trio (appeared in serial form as 3 related stories at now defunct e-zine eclips.us.com)
The Mango Trio 1. Freddie’s Son No one ever accused Finbar O’Connor of being an introvert. A lanky redhead with flinty eyes and skin like the belly of a fish, he has the table. It’s a nine-foot...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:8591|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Cajolery (appeared in Verbsap)
Cajolery Another Thursday night rehearsal had ended. Cellist Val Harnick, dreading the marathon weekends of rehearsing to come, selected a booth in the lounge, where Marie waited tables alone. Val had...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:3426|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Something Grand (appeared in an anthology as an award winner from Kansas State University and the HG Roberts Foundation)
Something Grand Both of them are styling in their expensive sweat suits and high top sneakers. Checking me out, just to make sure. One of them wears his hair in braided cornrows. The other wears a...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:5954|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Desire Equals Rain (appeared in Verbsap)
Desire Equals Rain Paco said every traveler wants a whore in Amsterdam. Gil didn’t agree, and remarked that nothing was sadder than loss of innocence. Paco just laughed, not caring that Gil hadn’t...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:2364|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

The Four-Cent Tip (appeared in Quiddity Journal)
The Four-Cent Tip...
Short Stories|  Updated:19-05-08
Words:2625|  Comments:2|  Status:Public

Tropical Somnambulist (appeared in How The Weather Was: An Anthology of Rhode Island Writers, from Ampersand Press)
Rollo Shea leaves his bedroom window and ambles through the hallway to visit his brother, Tom. He does this in silence because his mother, who is sitting downstairs, has told him to leave Tom alone....
Short Stories|  Updated:26-12-06
Words:1388|  Comments:2|  Status:Public

The Size of Need (appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal)
The Size Of Need...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:4593|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Harmony Loves A Violin (appeared in Plum Biscuit, the e-zine of the New York Writer's Coalition)
Harmony Loves A Violin When he saw Harmony, Ethan beamed, raising his hands in surrender. After a forgettable movie, he and I had arrived late. As usual, Harmony had started early. A pile of small...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:2812|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

The Man With His Wife Painted On His Chest (appeared in The Powhatan Revew, Winter, 2006)
The Man With His Wife Painted On His Chest His hair buzz-cut short for summer, Philly flip-flopped along in rubber sandals, passing commercial fishing boats moored along the pier in front of a...
Short Stories|  Genre:Fiction|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:1819|  Comments:2|  Status:Public

Blow Out All The Candles (appeared in Green Hills Literary Lantern)
Blow Out All the Candles...
Short Stories|  Updated:01-07-08
Words:4582|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Charlton City One-Bedroom (appeared in The Issue)
Charlton City One-Bedroom...
Poetry|  Genre:Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:144|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

authentic (appeared in interpoezia)
Authentic...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:94|  Comments:1|  Status:Public

Chums At The Grange (appeared in Pudding International)
Chums At The Grange...
Poetry|  Updated:19-05-08
Words:198|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

At The Newest Silk-Screen Plant In Lenexa, Kansas (appeared in Poetpourri)
AT THE NEWEST SILK-SCREEN PLANT IN LENEXA, KANSAS...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:130|  Comments:1|  Status:Public

Twilight On The Niagara River, and Driving Home From Windyville, Missouri (both appeared in Calliope)
TWILIGHT ON THE NIAGARA RIVER...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:279|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

In Praise Of Boston Aunts (appeared in Ibbetson Street Press)
In Praise Of Boston Aunts...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:144|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Stylishly Exacting Executions Done Of Olden Times In Collaboration With Ye Of Faith
Stylishly Exacting Executions Done Of Olden Times In Collaboration With Ye Of Faith...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:130|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Of Grouse And Crow And Wild Turkey (appeared in Mothwing Arts)
Of Grouse And Crow And Wild Turkey...
Poetry|  Genre:Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:150|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Westall's Good Knife (appeared in Sahara)
Westall’s Good Knife...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:131|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

hewitt on a stump (appeared in Pudding International)
hewitt (on a stump)...
Poetry|  Updated:19-05-08
Words:139|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

When The Horn Of Plenty Wears A Mute (appeared in Calliope)
WHEN THE HORN OF PLENTY WEARS A MUTE...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:59|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Perfect Memory (appeared in Soundings)
PERFECT MEMORY...
Poetry|  Updated:03-11-07
Words:101|  Comments:0|  Status:Public
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