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In which Margaret Mary Monahan goes to confession and Father Flynn tells all.
Last summer up at the lake... And summer starting to edge toward fall...
An old man and some old memories in the middle of the night.
In which Carl Spangler comes to terms with the one part of himself he can't BS.
Chicago guy. New York society gal. Summer afternoon by a pool in Connecticut.
Stump and Ev get a sitter and enjoy an evening out and some good news.
The spirit (and spirits) of the slowest river in Illinois.
This episode is chock full of backstory... Including exactly where Stump Padgett came from.
Unhappy at work, unhappy wife at home, the quietly desperate Union Valley man with the perfect life.
Union Valley's old town doctor tries to create Union Valley's new town doctor -- and a legacy.
Margaret Mary rides the North Shore line to Union Valley to snoop around Turner's world.
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.
Harry Stroud opens the cabin for the summer. Fresh air, blue skies and some unwelcome news.
Margaret Mary thinks she's in a relationship with Turner. Turner is in a relationship with his writing.
Nice little story about not-so-nice Arlene Wallace. She's still got a little mischief going in her old age.
Once a mongrel infantry sergeant always a mongrel infantry sergeant. Part of Roscoe Bates can never come home.
Will Turner and Author -- two short story writers -- talk short story writing at Shawn's.
Red and white 55 Bel Air convertible. Red 61 650 BSA. Two men doing favors for one another.
"Author" as catcher. His notes on how to pitch the no-good bunch of punks playing on the Bart's Buick team.
An afternoon in the life of Union Valley's undertaker.
Margaret Mary Monahan and Will Turner in the somewhat orange afterglow of they're-not-sure-what.
Do we owe it to our community's past to keep it's secrets?
Meanwhile, downtown at the Chicago Daily News, a South Side Irish girl has her eye on a Union Valley boy.
Jerry Tate's big promotion. And his trip home in the Milwaukee Road smoker car.
In the spring, Harry Stroud's fancy briefly turns to thoughts of an old flame.
Four young men, (old friends), reunite, catch up and kill a bottle of bourbon out in Doc Spangler's carriage house-turned-garage.
In which 96 year old Robert Trebelman serves Tuesday morning low mass... and looks back on life.
Episode two from Peter Smith's Union Valley 1962.
Inaugural Podcast from Union Valley 1962, short stories by Peter Smith
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