Frank & Rudy Camping Out – A Short Story by Arnold Snyder
Frank and Rudy Camping Out– A Short Story ©2012 Arnold Snyder For his tenth birthday, Rudy got an A-frame tent. He started begging Mom to let us sleep out in the yard. He wasn’t getting along well...
View ArticleNot Exactly Winter Wonderland (a short story) by Arnold Snyder
Not Exactly Winter Wonderland– A Short Story ©2012 Arnold Snyder We almost didn’t go to the Ice Capades in 1960. Every year Dad took us, the big Family Night. Geezus, it was miserable. But on my...
View ArticleAbove the Saints and Angels (a short story) by Arnold Snyder
Above the Saints & Angels– A Short Story ©2012 Arnold Snyder Detroit had three burlesque theaters in the 1960s, all of them downtown—the National, the Stone, and the Empress. Rudy and I had been...
View ArticleSheep in the Slaughterhouse (a short-short story) by Arnold Snyder
Sheep in the Slaughterhouse, 1980– A Short Story ©2012 Arnold Snyder Rudy picked me up at McCarran in his new white Thunderbird convertible, and after a twenty-minute drive in an afternoon sun that...
View ArticleThy Neighbor’s Wife (a short story) by Arnold Snyder
Thy Neighbor’s Wife– A Short Story ©2012 Arnold Snyder “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. This is my first confession. I disobeyed my parents twice last week. I talked back at my mother yesterday...
View ArticleFinding God on LSD (A Short Story About Schizophrenia) by Arnold Snyder
Finding God on LSD– a Short Story about Schizophrenia ©2012 Arnold Snyder My first wife, June, was schizophrenic, or so I’ve since surmised. I don’t know that she’d ever been officially diagnosed as...
View ArticleSecrets of a Winner (a short story) by Michael Konik
Secrets of a Winner A short story by Michael Konik ©2012 Michael Konik Until someone actually hands you $602,400 in cash, you can’t quite understand how special you feel. Let me tell you: Pretty...
View ArticleExcerpt from RISK OF RUIN, a new novel by Arnold Snyder
Chapter Ten It was in the parking lot of a Raley’s supermarket in Reno. He was giving her a ride home from work and they’d stopped for a quart of milk and a Hershey bar. It was a sticky summer day....
View ArticleAbove the Saints & AngelsA Short Story
by Arnold Snyder Detroit had three burlesque theaters in the 1960s, all of them downtown—the National, the Stone, and the Empress. Rudy and I had been watching their ads on the movie guide page of the...
View ArticleExcerpt from RISK OF RUIN, a new novel by Arnold Snyder
Chapter Ten It was in the parking lot of a Raley’s supermarket in Reno. He was giving her a ride home from work and they’d stopped for a quart of milk and a Hershey bar. It was a sticky summer day....
View ArticleSheep in the Slaughterhouse (a short-short story)
by Arnold Snyder Rudy picked me up at McCarran in his new white Thunderbird convertible, and after a twenty-minute drive in an afternoon sun that could melt brass, we left his car with the valet and...
View ArticleThy Neighbor’s Wife (a short story)
by Arnold Snyder “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. This is my first confession. I disobeyed my parents twice last week. I talked back at my mother yesterday and didn’t clean my room when she told...
View ArticleFrank & Rudy Camping Out – A Short Story
by Arnold Snyder For his tenth birthday, Rudy got an A-frame tent. He started begging Mom to let us sleep out in the yard. He wasn’t getting along well with her at that period in his life. His fault....
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