A lifetime storyteller, the author sold his first short story on its first submission. It is one of the humorous stories in his first book, a collection of military tales. He returns to the short story genre with BIKINI WEDNESDAY.
The petite, long haired brunette was wearing a red string bikini. “Get this. . .that chick is a Muslim.” “She must be wildly rebellious.” Fatimah saw herself as more of a California girl that as a Muslim. Her picture in the bikini ends up on the internet, and her world falls apart. She is saved for a while by Marines.
CUTTING MOTHER IN HALF: Aside from her brain tumor and eight feuding children; Mother’s dilemma is which of her two late husbands to be buried with. With her will she requires her children to unanimously agree on her burial, cremation is not an option. Her son Bob dreams of a butcher cutting his mother in half ,than wiping the blade with a damp cloth and cutting pork chops, “I may never eat pork chops again.”
THE CATALYST is a story of big city teen life in the 1950's. Eddie is talked into a blind date with a big over-weigh Polish girl so his friends can get dates with her sharp class mates from a private school. Her brother tells Eddie, “If my sister comes home in tears, I’ll break both your skinny arms.” Then there is the groundhog that comes to dinner and the demands of a gang leader.
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