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Ralph Memolo: A Perjurer's Tale
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Novel, Book, Published Work, Short Stories, Boston Author" /. An excerpt from "The Choir Boy" chapter of. Given Jessup's heavy drinking, Rowley isn't sure whether he should follow through on the tip, but he finds himself unable to ignore the tip Jessup has given him. The Choir Boy, of course, is Donlan. Also, who knows what else I might discover when I looked into an assistant DA who had yet to turn thirty but already showed a proclivity for soliciting (or accepting) cash bribes? When Donlan did speak up...
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Ralph Memolo: A Perjurer's Tale
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Ralph Memolo spent much of his working career in the field of public relations, most notably for more than two decades as public information officer at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife, Sylvia. His short stories can be found on www.ralphmemolo.com. Design by Robert Anselmi.
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Ralph Memolo: A Perjurer's Tale
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Novel, Book, Published Work, Short Stories, Boston Author" /. Questions and Answers about. Rowley is obviously writing about Boston. So is this fiction at all, or simply Ralph Memolo's interpretation of certain events in Boston's recent political history? I spent 20-plus years in Boston's City Hall. I wasn't a "player" by any means, so this isn't some kind of insider story. On the other hand, I couldn't help but notice some of the things going on around me. Certain character traits of Francis Philbrick D...
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In-House
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Dewitt was quicker than his peers in realizing that in such a competitive environment it might take mor. Dewitt's father, and his mother, who followed her husband's lead, congratulated him on his promotion, but neither did so with as much enthusiasm as Dewitt would have liked. He could only assume that their response had been muted, in part, by his second marriage coming to an end the same week he assumed his new position. You know all those jokes about lawyers who lack any feelings for other people?
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Taking Care of Leo
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Taking Care of Leo. Leo Crozier’s doctor at the medical center in Hanover was firm, perhaps too much so, when he told Dottie that she should consider putting Leo into a hospice. Too often, the doctor said, spouses fail to realize that the needs of a dying patient can’t be accommodated in the average home. I’m sorry, she said, but Leo’s coming home with me. Where I come from we don’t think it’s any bother to care for someone who's dying. The doctor, in full retreat by then, conceded that Dottie’s ho...
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Kapow
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Julia was the Marquand sibling who most resembled her father. She was almost as tall as he was, just as slender, and like her father, at least her father pre-Connie, she did not smile readily. In Julia’s case, her salt-and-pepper hair, pulled back into a loosely-held together bun, also made her look as if she dared anyone to say anything that might cause her to grin. A living, breathing bitch on wheels. You know that phrase, lighten up? I’m only sorry that father hadn’t met and married someon...Marshall ...
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After the War
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I still remember how nonchalantly the messenger peddled his bike, looking very much like someone out for a bit of exercise on a beautiful summer night. Then, one block away, at the corner where our street turned into Erie Street, he came to a stop. There, after perching his bike against the pole of a street light, he began climbing the stairs of a three-story tenement. Who are they trying to kid? How about all the others? Think of it. Bombs, grenades, mines, artillery shells. Lead weights, my cousin said...
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The Last of the Mulcahys
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The Last of the Mulcahys. My mother had a tougher time of it when it came to recounting the beneficence of my father’s family since the Mulcahys were known mostly for their singled minded pursuit of wealth. Ever resourceful, though, my mother managed to find a moral equivalency between her family and my father’s by reaching back to that generation of Mulcahys who had been civic benefactors. My mother obviously thought so. My mother, for instance, with little evidence to support her, even blamed the a...
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Arrivals and Departures
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You ask, at last, why I won't. Leave you alone. It isn't. Clear, however, whether this is a question you want me to answer or if it's your way of declaring that you would like never again to hear from me. I could ask for clarification, but the possibility that you will give me an answer that's. Honest and direct is so remote I'm simply going to assume you want to know, after all these years, why I continue to care about you. Note, I said, care about you, not. So easily contained. Nothing was going to...
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