The Grocer With One Good Eye

May 12, 2018 Short Stories
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,…

Isthmus 4-14-95: Party Pooper

May 12, 2018 Articles and Columns by George Vukelich
This is one of several columns George wrote in 1995 that was highly critical of some of the efforts by the Gov. Thompson administration to dismantle the public intervenor’s office and re-align some of the priorities of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

The Turtle

April 21, 2018 Short Stories
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

April 3, 2018 Short Stories
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…

Spendin’ Time in Nashville

April 3, 2018 Poems
Here is a country song that George wrote and sang into a little micro tape recorder. This has not appeared anywhere other than a sheet of paper given to his son. Spendin’ Time in Nashville By George Vukelich, 1990 Been spendin’ time in Nashville Looking for some fun I know…