Thomas M McDade
1) Independence
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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.
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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."...
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Lydia leave Florida for Barker's Leap, Massachusetts. Lofty soon follows. They work at Hughie's Diner and meet many interesting characters, Buff and Restin the standouts.Same Lydia and Lofty sketched in "Lydia: An Introduction" and "Lofty: An Introduction." This story also stands on its own eight pages but why not take time to read the aforementioned titles? Further information about Lydia and Lofty here as well as the debut of other characters. This...
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Tom Sellers, a sailor off the USS Mullinnix has been exchanging letters with Francy, a young woman he met through a USO pen pal program. They agree to get together when his ship visits Newport, RI. Her cousin picks up Tom up at the bus station in Providence delivers to him to her house in Lincoln. Her crafty younger brother entertains and an unexpected adventure follows.
9) Daddy Luck
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Odd relationship between divorced textile worker and his precocious daughter.
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Can down-and-out Ronnie Layne but on the way up find redemption at the Life-You-Save Blood Bank or the Regulation Bar next door? Will the woman he meets help or hinder his recovery. Read more. Cheer Ronnie onward! Enjoy a cast of accompanying characters that will have you laughing as well as scratching your head.
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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).
13) The Zippo
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Twenty-Seven hard-hitting poems. Some "Morally objectionable in part" for all.
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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.
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Fifty poems steeped the human predicament, displaying in diverse ways, its demons, saviors and whimsies. Stop by for a coffee at Andy's Diner or Laura's Luncheonette. A drink at the Canopy Club, taste Olympia's fromage. Fill your lungs with smoke in Sarajevo. Visit the Sleeping Giant and Castle Craig. Fall in love with Lena.The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.--W. Somerset Maugham
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Get a better idea of the Lofty of sketched in "Lydia: An Introduction." Further information about Lydia is included. Lofty's story stands on its own seven pages but why not take time to read the aforementioned title. This is the second piece crafted from a 9,600 word story accepted by Typeface a couple of years ago then abruptly scuttled two weeks later. Three more stories to follow. "Lofty: An Introduction was previously published by Irisi Magazine....
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Drastic changes in the lives of Lydia, Lofty, and Rustin, due to Lofty's auto and writing passions, a new hire at Hughie's Diner and visitors from Rhode Island. Same Lydia and Lofty sketched in "Lydia: An Introduction" and "Lofty: An Introduction" and "Lydia Lofty Hughie & Rustin" and "Lofty a Recollection." This story also stands on its own but why not take time to read the aforementioned titles? This is the last piece crafted from a 9,600 word story...
19) Vehicles
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A forty-five poem collection concerned with driving and the driven. The vehicles involved are mostly used and battered Chevrolets and Fords but there are appearances by other brands including Volkswagon, Pontiac, Plymouth, Buick, Studebaker and Cadillac. A dump truck and a couple of big rigs live here too. Speed, hitchhikers, accidents, fraud, reckless and irresponsible motoring are not strangers.