A housepainter is confronted by the sister of his deceased best friend.

Former dishwasher Jeff Gardener is confined to the one-star rated Crestwood House nursing home after suffering a paralyzing stroke. A nurse's aide named Diane is the one bright spot in his existence. Events in her life, combined with a pastime of his, impact his being and fate in eerie and fantastical ways hard to imagine.

Thirty-two poems regarding my many years of racetrack experiences and observations.

Poems regarding ups and downs of growing up in a Federal Housing Project.

Itinerary visits: Paris = 10, Ireland = 1, Montreal = 1, Quebec = 2, Turkey = 1, Florence = 2, Pisa = 2, Portugal = 1, Manhattan = 2, Utah = 2, Atlanta = 1, Queens, NY = 1, Rhode Island = 1, Connecticut = 1All poems previously published (See Acknowledgements)Author snapped the two photos that make up the cover he created

Twenty-Seven hard-hitting poems. Some "Morally objectionable in part" for all.

The Correct Elevation details a hitchhiking trip a man named Denny embarks on after making a wager with a friend from his Navy days. The three people in the car that pick him up on Interstate 84 are an unusual trio to put it mildly. The Driver is a crass, chain-smoking woman. Her male companion is a perfect match. The preteen girl Denny shares the back seat with is a mystery to behold.I am most grateful to The Bosphorus Review, the previous publisher of this story, 7/12/2020.

This 2,341-word account of one Trevor Shawl's nostalgic trip to the Uptown Downy Lounge is fraught with suspense, terror. Some characters in this tale will bring smiles, others are the stuff of 911 calls.I am most grateful to Between These Shores Literary & Arts Annual, previous publisher of "Hot And High At The Uptown Downy" under the title "The Heavenly Wrangler."

Forty-three poems surrounding the Sport of Kings and the commoners it makes of many participants.

Copperheads and Cary is a brief tale that follows a wise-cracking old man on his predawn morning walk that's nothing like any he's stepped before.I'm in raggedy jeans that have holes in the right cuff. I'm a kid with no chain guard on his bike. My dark blue hoodie is too big for me. My ten-buck Walmart sport shoes aren't much to look at but they're light. I'm a frigging fitness anti-fashion plate!I am most grateful to The Writer's Egg Magazine, (Jade Elvina Hinde, Editor, UK)...

Thirty-five poems concerning my U.S. Navy days, Great Lakes Boot Camp, USS Mullinnix (DD-944) and SK "A" School, Newport, RI. Another batch is on deck covering my years at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, VA and aboard the USS Miller (DE/FF 1091).

Bill Dean, a sailor on the USS Ramply DD-810 strikes up a friendship with an oddball shipmate working in the scullery. Through the streets of Catania, Sicily, mysteries unravel and tangle for both men. This is not your typical drunken liberty port gob tale but there are of course, women, beautiful and unique and always Mt. Etna, observing. See also my Navy Poems on Smashwords, "A Ditty Bag of Navy Poems" and "Miss Inspiration and other Sailor Poems." There's also a short story titled "Inde...