Email Author Michael Patrick Welch

2005 Stories by Michael Patrick Welch

• Au Revoir, Chauncey

  published November 3, 2005

  Weeks into our Houston "evacu-cation," our New Orleans landlords call, wanting to know if we're coming back. Their phone messages (we haven't been... More >>

• Underwater Dance Club, For Reals

  published October 20, 2005

  When George Bush claimed something to the effect of "there was no way we could have known that the levees would break," my first thought was to... More >>

• Goat Tales

  published October 6, 2005

  We never knew whether it was illegal to keep our goat inside the city of New Orleans. We never had to know. Because our Bywater neighbors never... More >>

• Between Is and Was

  published September 22, 2005

  A satellite map claims that our corner of the Ninth Ward, back by the naval base 200 feet from the Mississippi River, is, somehow, dry. Four of... More >>