Daycare
A few years before our time in this neighborhood, a woman lived in our very house and opened a daycare on the bottom two floors. Before she even opened for business, word spread that she had left New Jersey for Baltimore because...
Read MoreJohn Dermot Woods
John Dermot Woods is the author of the novel The Complete Collection of people, places & things. He writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. He edits the arts quarterly Action,Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast. He is a professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College on Long Island.
John Dermot Woods is the author of the novel The Complete Collection of people, places & things. He writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. He edits the arts quarterly Action,Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast. He is a professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College on Long Island.
Posts by John Dermot Woods
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A New Friend in Atlantic City
A nephew of my barber who had recently driven to Atlantic City told him that as he drove into town—while looking in the darkened windows of the pawn shops and motels on the city’s ground level—he decided that rather than stay at...
Read MoreBeside the New Jersey Turnpike
Baltimore’s greatest public servant, a former city councilman, was found dead in the woods of southern New Jersey, having fallen down a steep hill. He was killed either by the traumatic impact of his fall or from blood loss as...
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At the Tax Preparation Office
The manager of a tax preparation business (a storefront operation) worried every day that he’d...
Read MoreMoral Balance
A lawyer from Towson, who lived on a particularly quiet block, beat his neighbor, another man of about the same age, into submission in his own dining room, then bound him to a chair where he kept him for hours, beating him...
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