A Short Story by Michael F. Nyiri Originally created for WhenWordsCollide on Xanga: March 25, 2011 She sat forward with a jolt. Birds in the distance warbled in song, as if they were chirping for the first time. Her eyesight, failing for decades, seemed to be sharper. She looked straight ahead and focused on the lace curtains blowing almost wistfully in the warm summer breeze. She could make out the stitching. The curtain on the left was slightly yellowed. Suddenly Phyllis wa

This article originally appeared in the online magazine "The Palos Verdes Pulse" on September 27, 2023. I recreated it here on Allthingsmike's Whenwordscollide blog but never published it till now, June 8, 2026. The Wayfarers Chapel, shown in the section "Abalone Cove/Portuguese Point" was dismantled in July 2024 because of land movement on the peninsula. There are plans to reconstruct it in another area. Although I don't live on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, I have always call

Excerpted from "Goin' Crazy", an unfinished autobiography in novel form. by Michael F. Nyiri 1977 (continued from Part Three) Everybody...

Excerpted from "Goin' Crazy", an unfinished autobiography in novel form. by Michael F. Nyiri 1977 (continued from Part Two) The “Cast of...

Excerpted from "Goin' Crazy", an unfinished autobiography in novel form. by Michael F. Nyiri 1977 Continued from Part One "Guess who-o"...

Excerpted from "Goin' Crazy", an unfinished autobiography in novel form. by Michael F. Nyiri 1977 I wrote five chapters of my...

Inventions and manufacturing gave birth to better and more powerful weapons than ever before. Wars which had always been gentlemanly and hon

To honor my fifth year of sobriety, I am posting the first chapter of one of my "#blognovels", Drunkstory, written in 2009 and first...

I'm at it again. I'm creating a new blog.

"Empty Beer Cans (Passive Reflections on the Insanity of Life)" (a thoughtpoem) by Michael F. Nyiri November 28, 1979 1:00 p.m. He lay,...