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Novelist David Moloney Draws on Lowell Life for 2nd Book

This news release is reprinted from regalhousepublishing.com David Moloney I spent my twenties working in juvenile residential homes, mental hospitals, and a county jail. During that time, I wrote constantly—journals, stories, notes—keeping the muscles loose, even if the writing went nowhere. After my wife became pregnant, I left the jail…

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Carpets and Fish

Carpets and Fish By Paul Marion For years I’ve admired a photograph made by a friend, a picture of three young guys with fishing poles on the Aiken Street Bridge or Joseph R. Ouellette Bridge, named for a fallen soldier, over the Merrimack River in Lowell. The guys are taking…

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Sky Bar

Sky Bar by Paul Marion The barbershop on upper Merrimack Street had a candy vending machine against the long side wall where customers waited in padded steel chairs. When I had a dime, I’d slot the coin and pull the handle for a Sky Bar in a yellow wrapper with…

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