• donallogue (51)in #writing • 5 years ago

  We Who Know the Day

  Mikey and I were joking around to keep up our energy. Some people didn’t understand & thought we were goofballs, but there was a method to our madness. Generally speaking, while…

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• donallogue (51)in #poetry • 5 years ago

  mist

  Wringing hands. Glee unmasked. “And when I’m with Jesus,” you said, “In Heaven, and you are begging for water, we’ll spare not a drop. Not a drop!” Your eyes shone like a…

  $0.65

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• donallogue (51)in #literature • 6 years ago

  Huffy

  I saved up my lawn mowing money for a year to get my first Huffy. The Bicentennial version. I got a ton of shit. “No one’s too stuffy to ride on a Huffy.” My second was a…

  $18.36

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• donallogue (51)in #newtown • 6 years ago

  aion

  Waze alerted me to a route change. It wanted me to head back down 87 South towards New York. Odd. I was going to Boston. Crossing the Mario Cuomo Bridge I got cynical;…

  $1.13

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• donallogue (51)in #poetry • 6 years ago

  nekked

  Saw Anna Banana today We studied each other’s eyes She smiled. Crow's feet I remembered her running naked into the surf of Wrightsville Beach Getting ‘night nekked’ we…

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• donallogue (51)in #music • 6 years ago

  Driving north.

  Three hundred and twenty miles to miles to drive til dawn And I've got a list five names long. I've had good company on this trip-- Jade, who took on a good chunk of the…

  $1.11

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• donallogue (51)in #checkingin • 6 years ago

  drove cross country, threw out my back, kids are in chaos, but I will be back

  working on new stories for steemit- miss y'all

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• donallogue (51)in #story • 6 years ago

  Irish Eyes West

  The summer of 1990 was my nadir. An ex-girlfriend suggested I move from Boston to New York to give our relationship another shot. I arrived at Penn Station with sixty bucks in my…

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• donallogue (51)in #story • 6 years ago

  Roman Soldier

  Roman Soldier The relationship between Rome and Hibernia is a mystery. While some evidence suggests Romans traded with the Irish, other historians claim the Roman artifacts…

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• donallogue (51)in #story • 6 years ago

  farang: part 2

  I showered and met the director, Terry George, and Bill Paxton for breakfast. Bill and I were already tight. I met him two days earlier sitting across the aisle from me on the…

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• donallogue (51)in #dogs • 6 years ago

  Gringo, Coyote, & Róisín

  I was lonely. The last few years had been hard. I went through a breakup and custody battle. My ex had moved on to other relationships including a failed marriage and some…

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• donallogue (51)in #farang • 6 years ago

  farang

  Dawn broke. It was so hot, sweat stung my eyes. I couldn’t sleep, hadn’t since two A.M., and was waiting for day to come so I could get some orange juice, walk around, do…

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• donallogue (51)in #firstnations • 6 years ago

  demiin kew

  '' I flew into Sudbury on January 2, 2014. It was minus thirty-two degrees Celsius. It was the second time I’d been in the city since my trans-Canadian driving adventure in…

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• donallogue (51)in #arkansas • 6 years ago

  Arkansas (for #rockchickjen)

  At the baggage claim carousel at Little Rock Airport, I knew Arkansas was different. I saw a lot of people smoking and thought, Cool. I can light up. I’d been to Arkansas a…

  $7.05

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• donallogue (51)in #bears • 6 years ago

  face to face

  It was a cold afternoon, late Autumn. The sun was setting and a shadow grew over the pond. The phone rang. It was my neighbor, Lorri. She was worried she hadn’t seen her horses…

  $1.89

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• donallogue (51)in #fight • 6 years ago

  Upper-Toooonity

  ps- pic above is my child & dear friend, Mike Horam (RIP), not person in story I fought traffic on the 101, hustling home from a job to get to my son’s spelling bee. Weeks…

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• donallogue (51)in #art • 6 years ago

  can you hear the drums, Fernando?

  The drawing was from the perspective of someone driving through the woods, a deer caught in the headlights. The theme was common. It should have been ordinary, but something…

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• donallogue (51)in #poetry • 6 years ago

  seamus

  Seamus The beginning of sophomore year, I moved with six of my friends into a pair of adjoining suites on the top floor of F-entry in Adams House. We immediately threw a party.…

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• donallogue (51)in #serialkillers • 6 years ago

  Serial Killers - Qu'est-ce que c'est?

  Serial Killers The first serial killer I met was Cary Stayner. Well, he might not have been the first, and we didn’t really meet. He froze me with a stare as I rolled out of…

  $4.96

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• donallogue (51)in #trejo • 6 years ago

  Hypnotized

  In the early 60s, my friend, Danny Trejo, was locked up in LA County. I can’t remember the details of why, and in truth, he might not either. He was in a large block segregated…

  $17.32

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