Ghost Years by Barry Gifford

Author:Barry Gifford [Gifford Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: literary fiction; coming of age; drama; fiction; novels; fiction books; southern; realistic fiction books; literature; southern fiction; books fiction; music; americana; school; american literature; short stories; romance; realistic fiction; historical; modern; classic; literary; 20th century; friendship; roman; love; art; boarding school; relationships; feminism; mystery; race; theatre; plays; family; death; love story; crime; novella; culture; suspense; writing; dutch; adolescence; jazz; book club books; 21st century; urban fiction; film
ISBN: 9781644213780
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2024-01-09T11:30:00+00:00

“No.”

“That happened to my uncle Sean a couple times when he lived with us.”

“I kicked him but he didn’t move.”

The school bell rang.

“Do you think I should tell Mrs. McCarthy about him?”

“Nah, don’t bother, she’s Irish, too. When she was still Miss Kelly she used to go around with Sean until she met Frank McCarthy and married him.”

Later that morning, during recess, Wendy Wicklow, Roy’s friend Winky’s sister, who was in the fourth grade, came up to Roy and said, “I heard you saw a dead man lying in the street with a bullet hole in his forehead.”

“I saw a dead body but he didn’t have a bullet hole in his forehead. Who told you that?”

“I don’t know, one of the kids, everybody’s talkin’ about it, that it was a Polish guy. Billy O’Brian says that’s how the Dublin Boy-os, the gang from Bridgeport, executes people. They call a bullet between the eyes an Irish Kiss.”

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