GREGORY ORMSON

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  • The Diamond Speaks in Runes

    And the Diamond Speaks in Runes By Gregory Ormson If my friends could get out of their summer houses, we met at the diamond to sharpen the angles of our wild fastballs. The guts of our dirty brown ball unraveled like a tongue, wagging at the glove skipping by, hurling past the catcher in angry…

  • THE DIAMOND SPEAKS IN RUNES, in The Twin Bill December, 2020

    A baseball story from a North Menomonie Oriole, 1966 and beyond. “The Diamond Speaks in Runes,” my story in The Twin Bill a literary baseball publication from New York. Thank you Scott Bolohan for suggestions and to Russell Thorburn who helped me turn a final phrase to its 9th inning close. I’ve learned the best…

  • Midwest – from the Old Style Place. Cabin Writing

    Midwest – from the Old Style Place. Cabin Writing

    Notes from The Old Style Place                                             Everything at The Old Style Place remains upright, anchored in stubbornness. Its steadfast preachment to tenacity has denied gravity its victory. This stubbornness was earned by hammer and…