Tom Sheehan

Tom Sheehan, a Pushcart Prize nominee, writes in several different genres and makes it a point to create every day. He has published 28 books with more in process. His short story works—A Collection of Friends, From the Quickening, In the Garden of Long Shadows, Epic Cures, and Brief Cases, Short Spans—all include a veryContinue reading “Tom Sheehan”

Talk from the Back of Tim’s Barn

by Tom Sheehan These were more than echoes, the soft sounds I was hearing from the rear of the barn sitting back from Route 182 in Franklin, Maine, half a dozen fat pigs to one side, corn as deep as Iowa on the other side, and the terrain across the road flush with blueberry bushesContinue reading “Talk from the Back of Tim’s Barn”

The Catch of the Day

by Tom Sheehan Three of us were tight as a fist, and Eddie’s call came at 4:00 in the morning. His whisper, not wanting to wake his wife, said “Great storm at sea last night. Want to check the beach?” I knew he had called Ray already. Eddie knew false dawn practically every day ofContinue reading “The Catch of the Day”

Night Forgery

by Tom Sheehan Just before dawn a shadow makes tracks in the dew‑lit grass. Later, a whisper and a scent follow the forsaken imprints Not a leaf stirs, but if I watch closely, blades of grass ease upright, a loam granule is released to airs staggering under stars, and the whisper, vague, is familiar, perhapsContinue reading “Night Forgery”