Author - Walter F. Curran

Published Works

The Tribes of Port Baltimore

Non-Fiction – Maryland Writer’s Association 2019 Anthology March 1976 Working on the waterfront means learning to deal with tribalism, in all of its forms. Each port has its own unique flair, its own tribes and its own dialect. In Baltimore, the largest tribes are Irish, Polish and African-American, sometimes called Micks, Polacks and Blacks. The […]

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A Long Weekend

Non-Fiction – Eastern Shore Writers Association, Bay to Ocean 2018 A LONG WEEKEND Pain made me see the light. A lot of pain, a little light, but enough. When you’re a thirteen-year-old punk, hanging around with nineteen and twenty-year-old other punks, you don’t realize you’re the go-fer and butt of most jokes. You only know […]

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Thanksgiving Transition

Non-Fiction – The Coastal Point 11/27/15 Yeah, that’s right, transition not tradition. I am from South Boston, unavoidably, indelibly Irish. A few Lace Curtain types but most pig-shit Irish ensconced on their corner pub thrones. A chronic forum for ridiculing the Lace Curtain Irish, claiming disdain but evincing envy. The Lace Curtains’ behaved the same […]

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Fated Course

Fiction – Eastern Shore Writers Association, Bay to Ocean 2018 An eight-year-old girl, large for her age adorned with curly, brown-blond hair and amazing blue eyes asked me, “Granpa, is that a real museum?” If not for that question the link to my grandfather would have been forever lost. It has taken one hundred and […]

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The Window

Fiction – Rehoboth Beach Writer’s Guild, 2019 Anthology The window. It’s still there. Still screaming. The gaping maw and the evil, cruel wink. Part of a once protective wall, shielding us from wind and cold, it provided a perch to spy on the outside world, yet allowed the sun to peek inside, brightening the room […]

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