Ronan Short 
Short’s Stories [EPUB ebook] 
Bomb Dropping, Hampstead, North London 1940-1949

Bomb Dropping
How to Catch a Wife
Flying Monkeys
How to Catch a German Spy
Evacuating Away
Growing Up in Hampstead
Cubby Hole: No Toilet
Life at the Institute
Visit to the Godmother
Chicken with French Dressing
Elementary school and UXB Gang
Learning the Piano: A Lesson
The Underwood Conundrum
Two-Wheeled Transportation
Martindale Sidwell
 and the Church Choir
The Day the Circus Came to Town
‘Rio’ in Hampstead:
 Coca the Carioca

Saturday Morning Pictures
 And Starring in a Movie
The Pearlies
 Characters of Hamstead I
Professor C.E.M. Joad
 Characters of Hamstead II
Eric Arthur Blair
Characters of Hamstead III
The Move to Mill Hill
Why Was I Named Ronan?

Ronan Short was born in London, England soon after the start of World War II. After twenty-three years of an event-filled youth, he emigrated by boat from Liverpool to New York, where he worked in research as he had in England. He made his way via California to Fairbanks, Alaska by 1966. He was awarded the State of Alaska poetry prize in 1968 and completed an MFA in creative writing and theater in 1972. He worked, taught, married, and raised a family in the Golden Heart city. He and his wife of 40 years have two grown daughters and four grandchildren. Ronan has traveled extensively and has lived in Fairbanks for over 50 years. (He’s still looking for the road to the airport!)