Episodes
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Cobweb
In which Margaret Mary Monahan goes to confession and Father Flynn tells all.
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Elephant In The Rowboat
Last summer up at the lake... And summer starting to edge toward fall...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
An old man and some old memories in the middle of the night.
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A Snapshot of the Grand Canyon
In which Carl Spangler comes to terms with the one part of himself he can't BS.
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Kate
The art of the sad stupid little midlife affair
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Back East
Chicago guy. New York society gal. Summer afternoon by a pool in Connecticut.
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Dinner At Mayhew's
Stump and Ev get a sitter and enjoy an evening out and some good news.
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The Des Plaines
The spirit (and spirits) of the slowest river in Illinois.
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Delivery
Young man helps old man with a few things.
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Our Journey To China
Backyards and boyhood ala 1962.
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Soliloquy
This episode is chock full of backstory... Including exactly where Stump Padgett came from.
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Beautiful And Happy
Bitsy Bates living the good life... Sort of...
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A Letter From Back East
Connecticut as seen from Union Valley.
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Russ Roberts
Unhappy at work, unhappy wife at home, the quietly desperate Union Valley man with the perfect life.
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Doc
Union Valley's old town doctor tries to create Union Valley's new town doctor -- and a legacy.
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Saint Wanda
Margaret Mary rides the North Shore line to Union Valley to snoop around Turner's world.
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The Oracle At Grayslake
A beautiful summer day, a beautiful baby and the start of a beautiful lifelong friendship at the Bide-A-While Trailer Park out towards Grayslake.
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Creeds and Absolutes
Father Slaughter and his faith...
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At The Lake
Harry Stroud opens the cabin for the summer. Fresh air, blue skies and some unwelcome news.
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A Drink After Work
Margaret Mary thinks she's in a relationship with Turner. Turner is in a relationship with his writing.
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Marie
Nice little story about not-so-nice Arlene Wallace. She's still got a little mischief going in her old age.
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Roscoe Bosco
Once a mongrel infantry sergeant always a mongrel infantry sergeant. Part of Roscoe Bates can never come home.
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Writing Lesson
Will Turner and Author -- two short story writers -- talk short story writing at Shawn's.
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Pumping Gas
Red and white 55 Bel Air convertible. Red 61 650 BSA. Two men doing favors for one another.
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The Bart's Buick Line-Up
"Author" as catcher. His notes on how to pitch the no-good bunch of punks playing on the Bart's Buick team.
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Solve For X
An equation becomes an epiphany.
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In The Beauty Of The Lilies
An afternoon in the life of Union Valley's undertaker.
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Orange
Margaret Mary Monahan and Will Turner in the somewhat orange afterglow of they're-not-sure-what.
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Whither Destiny?
Do we owe it to our community's past to keep it's secrets?
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In Some Other Life
A glimpse into pharmacist Harry Shawn
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After The Baby
A mother-daughter talk...
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Miss Lonely Hearts
Meanwhile, downtown at the Chicago Daily News, a South Side Irish girl has her eye on a Union Valley boy.
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The 6:16
Jerry Tate's big promotion. And his trip home in the Milwaukee Road smoker car.
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A Gentleman Caller
Arlene Wallace entertains a guest.
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Moonlight On Elm Court
In the spring, Harry Stroud's fancy briefly turns to thoughts of an old flame.
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Marvelous Me
A mambos and memories after dinner.
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To Lawrence
Four young men, (old friends), reunite, catch up and kill a bottle of bourbon out in Doc Spangler's carriage house-turned-garage.
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Confetior.
In which 96 year old Robert Trebelman serves Tuesday morning low mass... and looks back on life.
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Main Street. A Walking Tour.
Episode two from Peter Smith's Union Valley 1962.
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At The Drugstore.
Inaugural Podcast from Union Valley 1962, short stories by Peter Smith
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