The Dead Beats is an eclectic collection of short stories that ranges from flashpoint historical nonfiction pieces about Pearl Harbor and 9/11 to sci-fi works about sidesplittingly irreverent aliens who bungle their way to infamy. There’s also the tale of a Vegas area orthopedist that loses everything by using his training in what becomes a viral MMA fight, but builds a new life alongside the destitute in the drainage tunnels below the strip, only to have it all tragically torn away. These contes are bookended by lore of not only ancestry but posterity, from a 19th century Greek farmer wrongfully accused of murder to a 54th century Moon dweller looking to the great beyond for closure.
With impactful prose and engrossing portrayals, the one theme that connects them all is the ultimate departure.
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With impactful prose and engrossing portrayals, the one theme that connects them all is the ultimate departure.
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An audiobook that spears the gash of gaslighting wokism, The Groggy Wink-Hole is an exploratory odyssey of offensive expositions. This satirical social commentary, as told from the perspective of an entitled white American male, while attempting to understand and embrace wokism doubles down upon woefully flawed yet hilariously executed takes.
Although a trigger warning is due, what with bulgingly buoyant bits that bash at the barriers of sexism, racism, genderism, politics and more, these topics are covered with enough pretzeled logic, clever alliteration and silly euphemisms to make you laugh, think and spring a coil of uncontained under thunder. Filled with jokes about bodily functions like clam gas and reproductive organs like the pelvic parking brake, open your heart to the pungent yet profound pan crackers that hang from the befouled mind of a ripe and rank muck chucker, and enjoy The Groggy Wink-Hole.
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Although a trigger warning is due, what with bulgingly buoyant bits that bash at the barriers of sexism, racism, genderism, politics and more, these topics are covered with enough pretzeled logic, clever alliteration and silly euphemisms to make you laugh, think and spring a coil of uncontained under thunder. Filled with jokes about bodily functions like clam gas and reproductive organs like the pelvic parking brake, open your heart to the pungent yet profound pan crackers that hang from the befouled mind of a ripe and rank muck chucker, and enjoy The Groggy Wink-Hole.
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Moshing at Skid Row/Pantera, naked breasts at Guns N’ Roses/Metallica, meeting Eddie Vedder at Lollapalooza, being mocked by Def Leppard at an empty arena in Roanoke Virginia, fondled by a drunk woman at a Kiss show; that was 1992 for 15-year-old Daniel.
Capturing the zeitgeist of rock concerts with a pictorial novel containing hundreds of images like photos, ticket stubs, art & more, A Life in Concert bobs and weaves from front row center for Pink Floyd’s final tour to a moment of passion with Tori Amos. Yeah, you read that right.
What happens when you’re the only white guy at a James Brown show on the south side of Chicago? What about when you’ve seen Phish a hundred times and you finally get to hang out with your drumming idol, Fishman? What transpires when you’re the drummer for a hip groove-jazz trio building a following in the bar scene of Chicago and the police come to arrest you? Find out in A Life in Concert.
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Capturing the zeitgeist of rock concerts with a pictorial novel containing hundreds of images like photos, ticket stubs, art & more, A Life in Concert bobs and weaves from front row center for Pink Floyd’s final tour to a moment of passion with Tori Amos. Yeah, you read that right.
What happens when you’re the only white guy at a James Brown show on the south side of Chicago? What about when you’ve seen Phish a hundred times and you finally get to hang out with your drumming idol, Fishman? What transpires when you’re the drummer for a hip groove-jazz trio building a following in the bar scene of Chicago and the police come to arrest you? Find out in A Life in Concert.
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In this captivating collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories, Premier Ch’Y Lom, leader of an ancient humanoid species, is out for revenge after the synthetic Thlotrians helped the Earthlings win their independence after he decided to cull the human herd by collapsing their atmosphere due to their violent and mentally unstable nature. With half of the tales in Wait For Juan being spokes of this plotline the other half are standalone adventures exploring ideas like the evolution of mankind into an organic internet that lives below the Earth’s crust, or looking at what happens when you’re a sexy young scientist stuck in a time loop with an amorous Einstein. What if Jesus was actually John Lennon? What if we finally make contact with aliens and they turn out to be more Three Stooges than Stephen Hawking?
As comical as it is futuristic, as provocative as it is contemplative, Wait For Juan brims with compelling storytelling blended seamlessly with rib-tickling ribald. So don’t wait for Wait For Juan.
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As comical as it is futuristic, as provocative as it is contemplative, Wait For Juan brims with compelling storytelling blended seamlessly with rib-tickling ribald. So don’t wait for Wait For Juan.
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With madness still gesticulating from his twenties Daniel strove for normalcy in his thirties, so he got married, had a kid and worked regular hours as an English teacher. The locale however was less conventional. A Life in Saigon is a tendril through time in an expat’s journey, from almost dying of cholera and in a plane going down in a violent storm to a neighbor hanging herself on Mother’s Day from the shame of her son’s gambling debts. His best friend moved to Phnom Penh and became a meth addict. The wife was harassed out of her job by a pathological German boss. When his daughter was born the nurse had to be wrestled away from pushing the head back inside because the doctor was having his dinner. As the lone foreigner in his neighborhood, potted plants and buckets of urine had to be dropped on would-be robbers in the night and heroin addicts had to be chased away with a baseball bat in the day. All the while Daniel goes Mad Max on an electric bicycle just to get to work.
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This heart-wrenching saga follows Gary Pender, a 40-something Canadian cynic, who falls into the clutches of a manipulative bargirl and a crippling meth addiction. Meanwhile, his family flies from Canada to Cambodia only to scour the underbelly of Phnom Penh on a desperate search to find him.
What the Pender's find is a loved one transformed into a mad, depraved junkie whose lost everything. They feed him and offer to take him home, but Gary is conniving & seethes with rage when they refuse to give him cash for more meth. Detached from reason, on the verge of either death or insanity, Gary fights every effort his family makes to get through to him. Will he see beyond his demons and embrace his family's helpful hand, or is it already too late?
Percolating beneath the portrayal of Gary’s downfall is Charlie, a 21-year-old slang-slinging Brit who impregnates and then marries Oanh, a young Vietnamese girl who's controlled by her scheming, gambling-addict mother. This storyline brings the book full circle to a shocking twist in the end.
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What the Pender's find is a loved one transformed into a mad, depraved junkie whose lost everything. They feed him and offer to take him home, but Gary is conniving & seethes with rage when they refuse to give him cash for more meth. Detached from reason, on the verge of either death or insanity, Gary fights every effort his family makes to get through to him. Will he see beyond his demons and embrace his family's helpful hand, or is it already too late?
Percolating beneath the portrayal of Gary’s downfall is Charlie, a 21-year-old slang-slinging Brit who impregnates and then marries Oanh, a young Vietnamese girl who's controlled by her scheming, gambling-addict mother. This storyline brings the book full circle to a shocking twist in the end.
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After four years in Vietnam Julian Jakos relocates to Boston where he attempts to establish a writing career. What he gets instead is a job as a therapist at an inner-city non-profit called White Horse where a paranoid bipolar schizophrenic runs things and there's a serial killer on the loose. With gimp girls seducing transgenders at fetish nights somehow being a thread in the investigation, Julian follows the lead detective into a kinky sexual subculture in order to utilize the opportunity to write for the Globe. Through it all Julian dives into therapeutic intervention strategies to treats his impudent client Everlasting, an urban 15-year-old whose credo is to stay black and die, but who holds deep trauma that become unearthed in the end to reveal a devastating secret.
There's love, lust and murder infused with psychoanalysis, office drama and the exploration of alternative sexual proclivities, all of which Julian ties together to find the truth about his co-workers, and ultimately to discover the killer who prowls White Horse.
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There's love, lust and murder infused with psychoanalysis, office drama and the exploration of alternative sexual proclivities, all of which Julian ties together to find the truth about his co-workers, and ultimately to discover the killer who prowls White Horse.
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An epic tale of degradation, The Greek Tragedy follows 30-year-old American Julian Jakos into the underbelly of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. What begins as a wide-eyed cultural observation quickly turns to the seedier side of Southeast Asia as Julian becomes immersed in the expat bar scene of Pham Ngu Lao.
Making friends with a feral lot of international drunks Julian is bound by misadventures amid a terse Vietnamese culture and a sex life as cruel as it is pleasurable. It's just another night after the English lessons when Mama Phuong's spliffs start going around. Before long the bar-girls hover, reaching for your lap and repeating, "You want boom boom baby?" Let the madness begin.
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Making friends with a feral lot of international drunks Julian is bound by misadventures amid a terse Vietnamese culture and a sex life as cruel as it is pleasurable. It's just another night after the English lessons when Mama Phuong's spliffs start going around. Before long the bar-girls hover, reaching for your lap and repeating, "You want boom boom baby?" Let the madness begin.
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After finishing university and two years of successful professional development in Boston, Julian moves to the Windy City with the confidence that things in his life will continue to rise. Unfortunately, due to a combination of poor choices and bad luck, instead he wrangles through heartbreak, a verbally & physically abusive boss, bankruptcy and being trapped in a lease with a mentally ill roommate that compulsively hordes and spreads his feces.
At his lowest Julian is pawning his worldly possessions and going to a church basement for food handouts, struggling with poverty and depression through Chicago's unceasing winters. Can he sustain through the hard times or is he destined to crumble? This moving ride is sure to make you laugh, cry and contemplate the way you look at American-style adversity.
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At his lowest Julian is pawning his worldly possessions and going to a church basement for food handouts, struggling with poverty and depression through Chicago's unceasing winters. Can he sustain through the hard times or is he destined to crumble? This moving ride is sure to make you laugh, cry and contemplate the way you look at American-style adversity.
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Suspend your normal grooming habits and dash on the patrouli; it's time for Phish tour. Hit the road with Julian Jakos, a precarious 23-year-old, as he quits his job at a sock factory and hops in the Isuzu Trooper of Peter Grossinger, a kleptomaniac gas station attendant who also works the night shift. As they travel across America Fall 98 chronicles Julian's arresting adventures with sex, drugs, rock n' roll, rogue cops, raver-hippy hybrids, maniacal twirlers, and mile after mile of interstate.
This gonzo-inspired read is a non-stop coming-of-age tale that's as much comical as it is disparaging, a book so saturated with drug logic you'll think you've been dosed.
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This gonzo-inspired read is a non-stop coming-of-age tale that's as much comical as it is disparaging, a book so saturated with drug logic you'll think you've been dosed.
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Whether a World War II historian or someone with an interest in wartime experiences, this is an engaging account of an anti-aircraft captain's experience fighting in the Pacific Front of WWII. Six months after eloping with his high school sweetheart the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, thrusting George into the war. From mingling with the island natives and working with anti-aircraft radar, to diving into trenches to avoid falling bombs and winning thousands of dollars at poker, The World War II Diary of Captain George B. Spero offers a vivid, yet straightforward account to the historical record of WWII experiences.
The diary includes footnotes for historical references, a biography of the author and over 100 embedded images including photographs, army orders as well as servicemen poetry and art.
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The diary includes footnotes for historical references, a biography of the author and over 100 embedded images including photographs, army orders as well as servicemen poetry and art.
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