A Debut Short Story Collection

Old Men and Their Scars

Thirty-five stories about men shaped by labor, love, loss, and silence.

About the Book

Stories carved from the American grain.

Old Men and Their Scars is a debut collection of thirty-five short stories tracing the lives of men across the broad American landscape — shaped by labor, love, loss, and the long shadows of their own choices.

These are men who rarely speak of what they carry. Their scars are earned in fields and factories, in marriages and silences, in the small betrayals that accumulate over a lifetime.

Written with quiet precision and deep empathy, Old Men and Their Scars asks what it means to grow old with dignity — and what it costs.

— David M. Jordan

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He had not cried at his wife's funeral, nor at his son's, nor at the slow going of the farm. But standing in the empty kitchen on a Tuesday morning with the coffee going cold, he felt something give way in him — quiet as a fence post finally surrendering to the frost.
He sat down. He did not get up for a long time.

From 'The Frost and the Post' — Old Men and Their Scars

This Book Is For You If...

You've watched a strong man go quiet and wondered what he was carrying.
You believe the most important things are rarely said out loud.
You've loved someone who showed it only in what they did, never what they said.
You know that a life lived without complaint is not a life lived without feeling.

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About the Author

David M. Jordan

David M. Jordan grew up in the American Midwest, where the men around him worked hard, spoke little, and left marks on everything they touched. He has spent decades listening to their stories — and to the silences between them.

Old Men and Their Scars is his debut collection. He lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest.

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