Opening Acts

536 N. Clark St. (2007). Ink on board. Title page art for my story Opening Acts, excerpted below, from my book Opening Acts and Other Stories, available at Amazon Books. This piece serves as the cover art for the book as well. Story and artwork copyright Danny Grosso.

Excerpt from the story Opening Acts:

…For ten minutes or so they just played around, fumbling really, trying to find a bit of harmony, until Shirley yelled over from the bar: “Why don’t youz find yourselves a song in all that noise.”

“Ok, well, that sounds like a request to me,” Martin said, “follow along with me and give us some lyrics, would ya’ son?”

It was only a few minutes after that when they were chiming like church bells, and Bryan was singing:

And I heard ye now/

come calling to me/

from the abbey ground/

beyond the sea/

and the companion cries/

of the wailing shes/

who’d lost their loves/

in the troubled eighties.

Danny Grosso

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