Stephen Metcalfe

playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

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  • Birdsong Moment

    I keep trying to write positive things these days. Needless to say, I’m finding it difficult. I’m not sure if it’s advancing age, personal circumstances or the tumultuous times we live in but too often I feel as if I’ve lost my underlying optimism and sense of humor; both of which have always been cornerstones…

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  • Dream, Dream, Dream

    I’ve always had rather bizarre dreams. Maybe it comes from working in my head all day long, as a writer wandering down roads of the imagination. I remember back in my forties and fifties constantly finding myself on planes going to… somewhere. And then, somehow, I’d end up in an altered dream-state version of New…

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  • Rocket Man

    Nothing to do, nothing to do, put a rocket in my shoe… Yeah, well, these days I wish I could. How is it one can be busy and focused pretty much one’s entire adult life and then suddenly hit a time where you get up, make a cup of coffee, retreat to the living room,…

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  • Ambient Sounds

    Working on a new novel. This is a rough draft of chapter 1. *************** “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth. Shall you not know it? Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the wasteland.” He isn’t, thinks Declan McCaslin, peering at…

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  • The Traitorous Knee – Part III

    Well, here I am in the eleventh week of recuperating from a total knee replacement and upon reflection, what I have to say is this. All the fellow tennis players I know who have gone through the procedure and told me they “wished they’d done it sooner”? They were either suffering from memory loss or…

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  • December Harbor

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  • December Harbor

    Talk about a Christmas gift. My sister in law sent me something from the family archives back in Connecticut. How she found it I don’t know. It’s a poem I must have written around my third year of college and sent home. I have no idea who kept it. It’s about my father. He and…

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