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I have 803 stories published in one collection on the site.
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Joseph Xavier Martin

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The Pheasant House

By jxmartin on Sun, 16 Feb 2025

The Pheasant House In the late 1960's, while attending college at S.U.N.Y Geneseo, I worked a few summers as seasonal help in Erie County's Chestnut...
Talecatching
Non-fiction
Certificate U
Cherry

Steel Makers

By jxmartin on Thu, 13 Feb 2025

Once, years ago, the sprawling Bethlehem Steel complex ran for miles along the Lake Erie shore in Lackawanna, just south of Buffalo, N.Y. Belching...
Talecatching
Non-fiction
Certificate U
Cherry

Who are we in America?

By jxmartin on Mon, 10 Feb 2025

America, Who are we? I was born into this Republic, some 76 years ago. My ancestors had come here in the 1840’s looking for a refuge from the hunger...
Spiritual
Non-fiction
Certificate U

Buffalo, Queen City of Lake Erie

By jxmartin on Mon, 03 Feb 2025

During the shipping season, at the Erie Basin Marina on Buffalo’s waterfront, you can often watch the massive bulk of a lake freighter glide by the...
Travel
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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Cherry

Echoes from yesterday

By jxmartin on Thu, 16 Jan 2025

The entrance gates are a massive, granite and wrought iron affair that would do honor to a Loire Valley Chateau. “Forest Lawn” is emblazoned across...
Spiritual
Non-fiction
Certificate U

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