Complaisant: Seamus Bends Toward the Breaking Point

“Why are you so complaisant, Seamus?” his sponsor asked, a hint of irritation in his husky voice. “You keep bending to everyone else’s wishes. Why?”

Conducting a Sockdolager: The End of the Line

Upon learning about Seamus’s fondness for trains and the Beaverbrook’s desire to see the “the End of the Line” in Elmira, A. J. MacDonald’s father delivered a sockdolager: "Seamus, I’ll drive you there, son. It’s only handy from where I spent my first fifty years. Let's go before the roads get slippy, eh?"

Seamus J. O'Sheehan's Castle: A Historical Novel in the Making

Most of the previous posts are snippets from Seamus's story, summarized here: A professional hockey player’s spiritual malady, his father’s death and a family mystery prompt Seamus J. O'Sheehan to reinvent himself, from the inside out.