SEAN GABLER

SEAN GABLER

Middle Aged Curmudgeon. Gritty Minimalist Fiction. Self-Deprecating Non-Fiction.

  • ALL GUESTS MUST BE ANNOUNCED
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;1
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;2
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;3
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;4
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;5
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;6
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;7
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;8
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;9
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;10
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;11
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;12
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;13
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;14
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;15
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;16
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;17
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;18
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;19
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;20
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;XXI
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;22
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;23
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;24
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;25
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;26
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;27
    • All Guests Must Be Announced u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;28
  • DART ETIQUETTE
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 1
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 2
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 3
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 4
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 5
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 6
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 7
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 8
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 9
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 10
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 11
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 12
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 13
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 14
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 15
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 16
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 17
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 18
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 19
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 20
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. XXI
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 22
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 23
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 24
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 25
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 26
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 27
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 28
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 29
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 30
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 31
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 32
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 33
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 34
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 35
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 36
    • Dart Etiquette – Ch. 37
  • WASH AWAY US ALL
    • Wash Away Us All – Ch. 1
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;2
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;3
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;4
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;5
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;6
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;7
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;8
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;9
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;10
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;11
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;12
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;13
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;14
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;15
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;16
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;17
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;18
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;19
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;20
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;XXI
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;22
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;23
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;24
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;25
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;26
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;27
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;28
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;29
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;30
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;31
    • Wash Away Us All u0026#8211; Ch.u0026nbsp;32
  • Reading Material
    • Reading List 2022
    • A Proper Bastard
    • K P Pu0026nbsp;C
    • The Desperate Man
    • The Thinning Of Theu0026nbsp;Veil
    • Irish Confetti
    • The Saw Isu0026nbsp;Family
    • Deoxyribonucleic Acid
    • Keep Your Seatbeltsu0026nbsp;Fastened
    • Memorial Day
    • Francis Lewis
    • Quartet
    • The Dirty Water
    • The Ballad Of Patu0026nbsp;Sullivan
    • BELLA
    • Merch Table For Au0026nbsp;King
    • TRATOR
    • You Didn’t Scratch The Paint, Right?
    • Seano’s First Arrest
    • 25 Ta Life
    • Now It’s Myu0026nbsp;Turn
    • That House Is Not Fit To Liveu0026nbsp;In
    • It Calls Meu0026nbsp;Forth
    • Them Two
    • She Was Lastu0026nbsp;Seen
    • So Let It Beu0026nbsp;Written
    • Permanent On Mostu0026nbsp;Surfaces
    • Disclaimer
  • About Me
  • The Desperate Man

    My dear friend Ms. Golden shared with me a game she played to pass the time with her colleagues at a work event. There may have been some alcohol imbibing and a handful of edibles in the mix. I’m sure it was fun. They asked each other various hypothetical questions, things like if you were…

    SG

    November 14, 2022
    Reading Material
    Art, bloodwork, Gustave Courbet, House of the Dragon, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, Queens, Realism, Romanticism, Whitestone, X-Files, XXI Team
  • The Thinning Of The Veil

    Happy Halloween, y’all. All Hallow’s Eve holds first place in the ranking of holidays for me. While I remain a hardened skeptic I must admit I have a deep love for all things supernatural and otherworldly. Predating Christianity and the Gregorian calendar, the festival of Samhain marked the season of allhallowtide, celebrated by the Celtic…

    SG

    October 31, 2022
    Reading Material
    All Hallows Eve, American, Candy, Celtic, Chocolate, Christianity, Druids, Halloween, Horror Movies, Ireland, Irish, Jack-o'-Lantern, Memorial Park Boys, Michael Myers, New York City, Parenthood, Queens, Tradition, Trick or Treat, XXI Team
  • Irish Confetti

    A car had stopped in the intersection of Willets Point and 149th street but I hadn’t noticed it at first. My friends noticed. I was in front of the mediocre pizzeria, on a strip of stores, that we lazily just called, the stores. Park Seafood, the pizzeria, a liquor store, Mama’s, a little asian run…

    SG

    October 19, 2022
    Reading Material
    Accountibility, Graff Crews, Irish Confetti, Memorial Park Boys, New York City, NYC, NYPD, Queens, Wedgie, Whitestone, XXI Team
  • The Saw Is Family

    “You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is, well…nobody knows. But the saw…the saw is family.” – Drayton Sawyer, the Cook. In the early 2000s some friends and I started a band named The Saw Is Family. I handled the vocals, with JF on bass, Nicky Suds on guitar and Nick Tombs…

    SG

    October 5, 2022
    Reading Material
    Bill Johnson, Bill Moseley, Cannon Films, Caroline Williams, Dennis Hopper, Ed Gein, Horror, Kim Henkel, L. M. Kit Carson, Leatherface, Queens, The Saw Is Family, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, Tobe Hooper, Tom Savini, XXI Team
  • All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 28

    In the cab on our way to Queens, Agnes and I spoke about Gerry and the declining condition of his illness, how there was no stage five, and the house I’d reluctantly inherit from him shortly. Agnes felt mixed emotions, happy for my new found stability and sad for Gerry and his plight. Agnes felt what…

    SG

    September 23, 2022
    All Guests Must Be Announced
    All Guests Must Be Announced, Anxiety, Classism, Dogs, Fiction, Housing Market, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, New York City, Novel, Patti Smith, Rainer Manning, Sean Gabler, Self Doubt, Social Commentary, St. Dymphna, XXI Team
  • All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 27

    “All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” My namesake, Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote that and it rang true to me. I admitted that I never had the highest opinion of people, for my parents, or myself. Nothing about my parents was ever poetic, it astonished me that they even knew Rilke existed…

    SG

    September 23, 2022
    All Guests Must Be Announced
    depression, Fiction, Glassjaw, Human Behavior, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, Modernity, New York City, Novel, Portishead, Rainer Manning, Rainer Maria Rilke, Relationships, Sean Gabler, The Black Dahlia Murder, XXI Team
  • All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 26

    Fisicaro relieved me of my doorman duties for what was my final shift, the last time I would be employed by 534 E57th street. No longer part of the sentry. No more hours clocked in the vortex of the lobby where time split and stretched. An hour at the building felt like ten.   I would be lying…

    SG

    September 21, 2022
    All Guests Must Be Announced
    Anxiety, depression, Fiction, Gratitude, Manhattan, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Murder, New York City, Novel, St. Dymphna, Suicide, The New York Mets, Therapy, Upper Class, Washinton Irving, XXI Team
  • All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 25

    I felt drunk, perhaps Gerry and I had overdid it, and on the clock no less. That was the only way I knew how to do things. Excessive in love and in hatred and in drink. There was a haze to everything but it wasn’t enough to stifle the negative thoughts rattling around my head. Why would it?…

    SG

    September 21, 2022
    All Guests Must Be Announced
    Allegory, depression, Doorman, Fiction, Ichabod, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, New York City, Novel, Rainer Manning, Sean Gabler, Social Media, St. Dymphna, Tullamore Dew, XXI Team
  • All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 24

    When Gerry returned to the lobby he was in civilian clothes. Old blue jeans and a gray Mets hoodie. He appeared to have taken a shower. The lobby smelled like my father, Old Spice and whiskey. Gerry returned the spare key to the Abruzzi’s apartment to the lock box. He had an old baseball in his hand, a…

    SG

    September 19, 2022
    All Guests Must Be Announced
    Cancer, Fiction, JFK, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, New York City, Novel, Rainer Manning, Sean Gabler, Slayer, The New York Mets, Tullamore Dew, XXI Team
  • All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 23

    Gerry did not sneak around the halls or creep around in the shadows of 534. He made no attempt to conceal himself or to quietly land the service elevator, having missed the intended floor, then descended back down before lining up the elevator perfectly. Unfazed with no second thought he entered 8A through the front door into Pruitt…

    SG

    September 19, 2022
    All Guests Must Be Announced
    Christopher Walken, Classism, Duncan Phyfe, Fiction, Gucci, Harley-Davidson, Leatherman, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, Natural Born Killers, New York City, Queens, Rainer Manning, Revenge, Versace, XXI Team
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