Join thrill-seeker, Seymour, and his intergalactic friend, Hau, as they travel the globe! Using Seymour’s smarts and Hau’s out-of-this-world abilities, they follow the call of friendship to far away lands, helping an international array of kids in tight spots- exploring new cultures, solving mysteries and making new pals with every adventure.Every book in the The Adventures of Seymour & Hau series takes young readers (6-10 years old) on an inspiring adventure around the world where...

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

Chicago lawyer falls for exotic dancer and she changes his dull life. Many of her colleagues add remarkable vigor to this tale.

Chet has trouble with mom & her boyfriend as well as with kids in the Housing Project where he lives. Things aren't any easier at school. He's devised two plans of escape but just one will work.

"Legislation" is about a stop at a barroom that fuels a time travel return to the protagonist's hitch in the U.S. Navy by means of a quiz show on the bar TV. Show

The woman holding a house painter's check for work he completed uncaps childhood memories and surprises him with an odd notion or so.

During a lunch of mushroom soup, ham sandwiches and chocolate ice cream, a family discusses a woman in a family way, a barroom and a race track.

Shady shenanigans underway and ashore! The Ship is the USS Ramply, a Norfolk based destroyer operating with the carrier Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea. A Corvette loving Boatswain Mate, a singing Oregonian, a poet in love with a woman he met in Valencia, a Bostonian short-timer and a gambling coup provide the action and suspense.

Twelve pieces of sudden or flash fiction covering many facets of the human condition.

"Oral" is a story of a blue collar worker's relationship with alcohol, tobacco and the memories, yearnings and imaginings haphazardly woven."Auditory" tells of an old man's morning walk while listening to an MP3 Player that recalls childhood listening and sparks fantasies.Strukturiss Quarterly, published "Oral" under the title "Sipping The Night With Tom" in its Volume 1, Issue 1. Harmonia Press, published "Auditory" under the title "The Rocket and the MP3" in Synaeresis Issu...

Twenty-five poems about thoroughbreds, racetracks, jockeys, trainers and gamblers.

Tom Wales finds more trouble tending bar at the Rathskeller in Virginia Beach (See "News Of Us Hitching" - preceding story). When this story was published a year ago by The Disappointed Housewife, it was titled "The Heartland And I."