The Scale Room
The Scale Room was published in 1954 in the Atlantic Monthly, and was included in the 1955 anthology “Best American Short Stories.”
Category: Short Stories
Milwaukee Journal 11-12-89: Mourning (Short Story)
The short story “Mourning” appeared in the Wisconsin magazine insert of the Milwaukee Journal on November 11, 1989. The insert was a regular part of the Sunday edition of the Milwaukee Journal and George contributed a number of articles and short stories over the years.
The Grocer With One Good Eye
The Grocer With One Good Eye appeared in the Spring, 1955 volume of the Armenian Review. The magazine included the following “about the Author” blurb: George Vukelich, whose “The Grocer With One Good Eye” is his first contribution to the The Armenian Review, was born in 1927, in So. Milwaukee,…
The Turtle
The Turtle was originally published in the New Letters Magazine of the University of Kansas City Press in the summer of 1958. It has been reprinted numerous times in high school English textbooks and in several collections of short stories. It appeared in the Bantam Books Top Ten Stories paperback…
The Sturgeon
This short story appeared in The University of Kansas City Review, Spring, 1958 edition. This short story was then edited and makes up the last chapters of George’s 1962 novel Fisherman’s Beach. The hardcover version of the novel was published by St. Martin’s Press. George reprinted a paperback version under his…
the bosun’s chair
This short story first appeared in “Arts in Society”, Fall 1960.