Autobiographical Fiction

ANOTHER CAMPGROUND TALE

By bardofthewoods October 1, 2024 Leave a comment

By Don Kenton Henry1 October 2024 (Herein lies another short story. This one is an excerpt from a larger one told through the eyes of my grandson on the occasion of my funeral and the events preceding such.)      Who would have thought we’d be burying that man a week later.  All those words … […]

THE TOOTH AND THE FUDGSICLE MOTIF

By bardofthewoods September 1, 2024 1 Comment

“When skullball was the biggest game in Mount Hope Cemetery.” By Don Kenton Henry The sky was so blue it could have cracked like a robin’s egg on that hot August afternoon in the summer of ’69. A war raged in Vietnam, and boys barely three years older than us were dying there. We’d heard […]

Uncle Waldo and the Nuclear Turkey (Redux)

By bardofthewoods November 24, 2023 Leave a comment

A Thanksgiving to Remember — 1968 By Don Kenton HenryThe Bard of the Woods (“And how did you all come to be covered in wild rice—and say—is that an oyster in your hair, Mrs. Henry?” asked Officer Dawalt. Mom ran her fingers through her hair, removed the article, and inspected it.“No … that’s a giblet.”) […]

HISTORY TRUMPS A ROYAL FLUSH

By bardofthewoods August 9, 2023 Leave a comment

“The best woman I ever had, I won in a card game. Not in New Orleans, Vegas, or some other “City of Sin”, but in Dayton, Ohio. My prize was an even less likely result given I had not played poker since the sixth grade.” By Don Kenton Henry The best woman I ever had, […]

Every Summer Was A Circus

By bardofthewoods May 23, 2015 1 Comment

BY DON KENTON HENRY        I grew up in the most magical of places a boy could hope to. A place where every summer day was a circus. And when I was not watching in wondrous amazement . . . I was performing. The place was Peru, Indiana and my home at 333 Sycamore […]

Trap Door To The Booby Hatch: Part III

By bardofthewoods July 30, 2014 Leave a comment

By Don Kenton Henry In Part II, we left off with: {“Your mother did sign commitment papers but, initially, only for observation. You presented acute psychiatric symptoms warranting emergency hospitalization in our Extended Observation Unit. The next 72 hours will be a period of stabilization and evaluation. At the end of that time, if our […]

Uncle Waldo And The Nuclear Turkey

By bardofthewoods November 27, 2013 Leave a comment

By Don Kenton Henry UNCLE WALDO AND THE NUCLEAR TURKEY “And how did you all come to be covered in wild rice–and say–is that an oyster in your hair, Mrs. Henry?” asked Officer Dawalt. Mom ran her fingers through her hair, removed the article and inspected it. “No … that’s a giblet.” All Thanksgivings are […]

Princess Xanax And The Ride To Kalispell . . . (the road goes on)

By bardofthewoods September 8, 2013 2 Comments

By Don Kenton Henry (From A Phobia of Walls)      “Throw your leg over, Princess Xanax and get on this steel horse behind me. I promise by the time we hit the Bitterroot Range–three days from here–you’ll throw all those pills–in that thing you call a purse–in the Flathead River and never look back. Let the trout […]

The Day Jack Benny Died

By bardofthewoods August 11, 2013 Leave a comment

THE DAY JACK BENNY DIED By Don Kenton Henry “Who would have thought a tale of star-crossed love which began with the death of a celebrity … would reach its near conclusion with his own.” The hearse made its way onto the gravel road and into Weston Cemetery. I followed in the first car behind […]

Trap Door To The Booby Hatch: Part I – From the Medical Archives of Don Kenton Henry . . .

By bardofthewoods August 2, 2013 Leave a comment

I was digging through an old footlocker I have carted around since a stint in military school my junior year of high school when I came across my scrap book from those prep school days. In it I found an copy of myself making the cover of Psychology Today. Seems I’m published after all. Well . […]