Photo credit: kpishdadi The voice, I thought, would get me girls. It didn’t. After my first girlfriend,…
John Sheppard
If you grew up in the Tampa Bay area in the 1970’s, as I did, we had…
In first grade, while doing a Svengoolie impression in the mirror in the bathroom, I was discovered…
My father didn’t like kiddie movies, but he, having been informed by our mother that he…
While I was attending New College during my freshman year, I took a political science course taught…
The first chapter of John L. Sheppard’s latest novel Alpha Mike Foxtrot (Paragraph Line Books) drops us…
1 While I was cleaning my apartment recently, I picked my grandfather’s accordion up and played it…
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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 When I was a teenager, I worked at a Pizza Hut….
Part 1 here Part 2 here My turn came to get on an airliner, a Northwest Orient…
See part 1 here. My sister and I used to spend summers with my grandparents, my mother’s…
After I’d left my wife, after I’d been fired, again, I sat alone in my apartment drinking…
Billy sat in his cloister trying very hard not to hear his mother’s screams. It was impossible….