Breakfast Serial : Hallard Press, LLC

Breakfast Serial from Hallard Press

Quick Reads Published Every Friday for your Weekend Pleasure

March 16, 2023 –

It’s Not Easy Being Green

Learn how the leprechauns in Chicago celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

March 8, 2023 –

Kaffa, Crimea – – The Siege

1346 Conflict over trade rights devolved between Genoese merchants and the Mongol Golden Horde. Besieged in 1345, the fortress at Kaffa, held on…..

March 2, 2023 –

Words are a Treasure

I learned to love words at an early age. They understood words could heal, or they could kill.

February 23, 2023 –

Dad Was Right

You don’t have to believe in ghosts to feel the hair on the back of your neck stand straight out when you find yourself in what seems to be a supernatural event.

February 16, 2023 –

Most people don’t believe me when I tell them this story, but it’s true. They tell me not all inhabitants of New York City are cruel, and my brain tells me they are right. But my heart says otherwise.

February 10, 2023 –

Nothing Says Love Like Pepto-Bismol Pink

Cupid didn’t always wear a diaper and fly around with a quiver of arrows strapped to his chubby little body. In fact, he didn’t become a winged cherub until painters from the Renaissance Era decided the quintessential instigator of romance should be a curly haired toddler.

February 9, 2023 –

On a Hot Wing and a Prayer: Fly, Eagles, Fly!

Fasten your seatbelt and break out the hot wings--The Big Game is coming! Come February 12, the Kansas City Chiefs will meet the Philadelphia Eagles in a battle for Super Bowl bling and the chance for a player on the winning team to look into the camera and respond to the age-old question: What are...

February 2, 2023 –

Becoming Nunataks!

Through the twenty seven years of hiking together we dubbed ourselves the Happy Hikers, assigned ourselves trail names, donned pink hats and wore matching, colorful T-shirts, one color for each day of the week.

January 26, 2023 –

A Funny Thing Happened in Pittsburgh

My friend Tate and I had travelled to the Steel City for a football coaches’ conference. Neither of us had been to Pittsburgh, so we arrived a day early to explore the city. Of course, as young men in our twenties, we planned to seek the company of young women.

January 19, 2023 –

A Funny Thing Happened After the Funeral

My beloved father-in-law died at the age of 67 due to lung cancer. He smoked 3 packs of Lucky Strikes every day for more than 50 years; the unfiltered killers had taken the expected toll. That’s not the funny thing that happened.

January 13, 2023 –

I’d Kill For a Cigarette

I want a cigarette. No, I need a cigarette. I crave the comfort of tobacco wrapped in white paper so thin, I can smell it from six feet away. I want to light an unfiltered coffin nail, hold it between my fingers.

January 6, 2023 –

Baked or Half-Baked?

There we were, each of us 30-something, all college grads, all employed, and all drinking expensive red wine, the nine-dollar-a-bottle kind. Ten of us, a mix of middle-school teachers and lawyers, were partying.

December 21, 2022 –

Elfin Magic

It was December 23, 2009. Our adult children were home for Christmas. It was day two of five. The three sons-in- laws played the board game, War in one room. Our daughters were on electronic devices—shopping. Our granddaughter was now sprawled on the floor in the open-concept living room-kitchen in front of the television, which...

December 15, 2022 –

Hanukkah Trivia

Hanukkah Trivia - Why do we celebrate Hanukkah for eight nights? Lighting the menorah.

December 6, 2022 –

This Can’t be Happening

It was the autumn of 2021, we were in the middle of 25-day 5500-mile road trip that we dubbed "The Celebration of Life Tour." What could go wrong???

December 1, 2022 –

Artificial Intelligence

This humorous story takes place in a farmhouse kitchen in southcentral Pennsylvania. While a retired Myrtle engages in a crude and barbaric effort to tenderize chicken breasts, her also-retired husband, Elmer, is laser-focused on using modern technology to order an Amazon Dot.

November 23, 2022 –

The Prisoner

Short story with an unreliable narrator. All the brown ones get boiled.

November 17, 2022 –

Simple Answers

Anna sat knitting in her tufted wingback recliner. The afternoon sun gave a warm glow to the farmhouse living room. Anna's granddaughter, Glenda, was expecting, and Anna was knitting a receiving blanket for the baby. But the knitting was not going well. In October, she had her cataracts removed and was not adjusting well to...

November 10, 2022 –

Losing Track of Time

Sam Olsen opened the door of his office building to a downpour. He promised his wife he’d be home in time for their anniversary dinner. Already late, now the deluge would delay him even more.

November 3, 2022 –

100,000 Year War

Short story about the war between the Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens.

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