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I have 818 stories published in
one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 1025981 times
and 199 of my stories have been cherry picked.
26 of my 552 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 27 votes
Joseph Xavier Martin
My stories
The Pheasant House
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...
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Steel Makers
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...
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Who are we in America?
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...
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Buffalo, Queen City of Lake Erie
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...
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Echoes from yesterday
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...
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