Brodsky - Getting to unknow the neighbors: short fictions

Getting to

Unknow

the

Neighbors

Five Facets of Myself (1967) (1995)

The Easy Philosopher (1967) (1995)

A Hard Coming of It and Other Poems (1967) (1995)

The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop (1967) (1995, exp.)

Points in Time (1971) (1995) (1996)

Taking the Back Road Home (1972) (1997) (2000)

Trip to Tipton and Other Compulsions (1973) (1997)

The Talking Machine and Other Poems (1974) (1997)

Tiffany Shade (1974) (1997)

Trilogy: A Birth Cycle (1974) (1998)

Cold Companionable Streams (1975) (1999)

Mondays Child (1975) (1998)

Preparing for Incarnations (1975) (1976, exp.) (1999) (1999, exp.)

The Kingdom of Gewgaw (1976) (2000)

Point of Americas II (1976) (1998)

La Preciosa (1977) (2001)

Stranded in the Land of Transients (1978) (2000)

The Uncelebrated Ceremony of Pants-Factory Fatso (1978) (2001)

Birds in Passage (1980) (2001)

Rsum of a Scrapegoat (1980) (2001)

Mississippi Vistas: Volume One of A Mississippi Trilogy (1983) (1990)

You Cant Go Back, Exactly (1988, two eds.) (1989) (2003, exp.)

The Thorough Earth (1989)

Four and Twenty Blackbirds Soaring (1989)

Falling from Heaven: Holocaust Poems of a Jew and a Gentile (with William Heyen) (1991)

Forever, for Now: Poems for a Later Love (1991)

Paper-Whites for Lady Jane: Poems of a Midlife Love Affair (1992) (1995)

Mistress Mississippi: Volume Three of A Mississippi Trilogy (1992)

A Gleam in the Eye: Volume One of The Seasons of Youth (1992) (2009)

Gestapo Crows: Holocaust Poems (1992)

The Third Years a Charm: Later-Love Poems (1993)

The Capital Caf: Poems of Redneck, U.S.A. (1993)

Disappearing in Mississippi Latitudes: Volume Two of A Mississippi Trilogy (1994)

Variations on a Love Theme: Poems for Janie (1995)

A Mississippi Trilogy: A Poetic Saga of the South (1995)

The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume One, 19631967 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (1996)

Three Early Books of Poems by Louis Daniel Brodsky, 19671969: The Easy Philosopher, A Hard Coming of It and Other Poems , and The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (1997)

The Eleventh Lost Tribe: Poems of the Holocaust (1998)

Toward the Torah, Soaring: Poems of the Renascence of Faith (1998)

Voice Within the Void: Poems of Homo supinus (2000)

The Swastika Clock: Endlsung Poems (2000)

Rabbi Auschwitz: Poems of the Shoah (2000) (2009)

Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume One (2001) (2004)

The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Two, 19671976 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (2002)

Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Two (2002) (2004)

Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Three (2002) (2004)

Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Four (2002) (2004)

Shadow War: A Poetic Chronicle of September 11 and Beyond, Volume Five (2002) (2004)

Regime Change: Poems of Americas Showdown with Iraq, Volume One (2002)

Heavenward (2003)

Regime Change: Poems of Americas Showdown with Iraq, Volume Two (2003)

Regime Change: Poems of Americas Showdown with Iraq, Volume Three (2003)

The Location of the Unknown: Shoah Poems (2004)

The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Three, 19761980 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (2004)

Peddler on the Road: Days in the Life of Willy Sypher (2005)

Combing Floridas Shores: Poems of Two Lifetimes (2006)

Showdown with a Cactus: Poems Chronicling the Prickly Struggle Between the Forces of Dubya-ness and Enlightenment, 20032006 (2006)

A Transcendental Almanac: Poems of Nature (2006)

Once upon a Small-Town Time: Poems of Americas Heartland (2007)

Still Wandering in the Wilderness: Poems of the Jewish Diaspora (2007)

The World Waiting to Be: Poems About the Creative Process (2008)

The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume Four, 19811985 (edited by Sheri L. Vandermolen) (2008)

Kampf : Poems of the Holocaust (2008)

Dine-Rite: Breakfast Poems (2008)

Rien Sans Amour : Love Poems for Jane (2009)

By Leaps and Bounds: Volume Two of The Seasons of Youth (2009)

At Waters Edge: Poems of Lake Nebagamon, Volume One (2010)

Seizing the Sun and Moon: Volume Three of The Seasons of Youth (2010)

Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky: A Descriptive Catalogue (1979)

Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection: Volume I, The Biobibliography (1982)

Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection: Volume II, The Letters (1984)

Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection: Volume III, The De Gaulle Story (1984)

Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection: Volume IV, Battle Cry (1985)

Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen by William Faulkner (1987)

Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection: Volume V, Manuscripts and Documents (1989)

Stallion Road : A Screenplay by William Faulkner (1989)

William Faulkner, Life Glimpses (1990)

Between Grief and Nothing (novel) (1964)

Between the Heron and the Wren (novel) (1965)

Dink Phlagers Alligator and Other Stories (1966)

The Drift of Things (novel) (1966)

Vineyards Toys (novel) (1967)

The Bindle Stiffs (novel) (1968)

Yellow Bricks (short fictions) (1999)

Catchin the Drift o the Draft (short fictions) (1999)

This Heres a Merica (short fictions) (1999)

Leaky Tubs (short fictions) (2001)

Rated Xmas (short fictions) (2003)

Nuts to You! (short fictions) (2004)

Pigskinizations (short fictions) (2005)

With One Foot in the Butterfly Farm (short fictions) (2009)

Getting to Unknow the Neighbors (short fictions) (2010)

The Adventures of the Night Riders, Better Known as the Terrible Trio (with Richard Milsten) (1961)

Unpublished

Getting to

Unknow

the

Neighbors

Short fictions

by L.D. Brodsky

An imprint of Time Being Press

St. Louis, Missouri

Copyright 2010 by Louis Daniel Brodsky

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The characters and events portrayed in these stories are fictitious. Any similarities to real persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental and not intended by the author .

ISBN 978-1-56809-138-9 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-56809-164-8 (eBook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Brodsky, Louis Daniel.

Getting to unknow the neighbors: short fictions / by Louis Daniel Brodsky. 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-56809-138-9 (pbk.: acid-free paper)

I. Humorous stories, American. I. Title.

PS3552.R623G48 2011

813.54dc22

2010051492

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