GREGORY ORMSON

Category: Midwest

  • Ghosts published in Turks Head Review 8/4/15

    Ghosts

  • Midwest

    Midwest

    My arm was sore, but over and over I pulled the rope. The Evinrude sputtered and coughed. After a few minutes, it kicked into idle and spewed out blue clouds of exhaust near the water. The old boat motor had an ornery sound, like the voice of someone when their car doesn’t start in winter.…

  • 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…

  • Midwest BLOOD TRACKS

    Midwest BLOOD TRACKS

    I’ve been traveling for two days and I’m tired of being treated like a number. I’m finally at my destination, a cabin in northern Wisconsin. I’ve come a long way to be here, and I know my journey from Hawaii was worth it. Opening the door, I grope to find a light switch. In a…

  • Midwest “O Rings”: Old Style Place (Am Writing)

    “O Rings”: Old Style Place (Am Writing): I tune to WOJB for an in-breaking from another world. The indigenous people speak in even tones, softly on the microphone, nearly a chant. …

  • Midwest Old Style Place (Am Writing)

    Midwest Old Style Place (Am Writing)

    I tune to WOJB for an in-breaking from another world. The indigenouspeople speak in even tones, softly on the microphone, nearly a chant. Theiridiom camouflages a humor I sometimes get.  Dead air, then a night-time jock speaks with refreshing lack of pretense, clear and simple. She says, “Good evening everyone. It’s Tuesday and I hope…

  • Midwest “O Rings”: Paging through the album, I stop at a photo of a…

    “O Rings”: Paging through the album, I stop at a photo of a…: Paging through the album, I stop at a photo of a dark-haired, bespectacled 50-year old wearing an orange hat and brown flannel shirt,…

  • Midwest

    Midwest

    Paging through the album, I stop at a photo of a dark-haired, bespectacled 50-year old wearing an orange hat and brown flannel shirt, suspenders resting off his shoulders and to the side. His blaze-orange pants are unbuttoned at the waist and stained with blood. He stands with two other hunters and they smile in front…

  • Midwest (Old Style Place)

    Midwest (Old Style Place)

    But this message reverberates in the fabric of the pine-wood cabin. It’s the soul inhabiting each inch on the property. Feeding off stubbornness alone, The Old Style place continues to stand against the encroachment of modernity and change. Its motto could be, “Fight Gravity.”

  • Midwest When Baseball Will Mean Everything Once Again, The Dunn County News April 12, 2015

    http://chippewa.com/dunnconnect/sports/local/when-baseball-will-mean-everything-once-again/article/_dfc1143c-19c7-528e-9e5f-7ebbf52cc071.html