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Thomas M. McDade
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Famous Characters: Batman
Batman and Hat Rack ()Book List in Order: 56 titles
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Flags & Flashlights
- Sep-2014
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This short Twilight Zone like (I hope) story is about a mother / daughter relationship. The widowed mother is retired and obsessed with playing Daily Numbers. Her daughter works in a factory assembling flashlights. A length of service award and pocke...
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Independence
- Oct-2014
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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 V...
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The Jockey & the Photog Or The Creepy Little Trick
- Feb-2015
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A short story revolving around a photographer's obsession with a thoroughbred jockey and a horse he rides named Prism. Bianca treats Jerry to adventures beyond his wildest imaginings. Join them for coffee at the Spoon Click Breakfast & Lunch and a co...
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As Bob Dylan Said
This short story deals with metal, legal and illegal, light and heavy, as well as two men who collect it. Shuffles gathers the former, Jake deals the latter. A Bob Dylan lyric shows up at the forging of the partnership and accompanies the trip. Myste...
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Bianca's Napoli Bar
This story takes place in Naples, Italy. Central is a bar ruled over by a most interesting and feisty woman named Bianca. It is a sailor destination but for Tom McCall, a signalman on the USS Ramply (DD-810), this watering hole with a jukebox full of...
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Biscuits and Scrying
This 3,222-word short story tells of three friends who often meet for morning coffee at a religious theme park ruin. They often talk of Canaan Crossing's banner days and sometimes grow optimistic about a restoration. Two people who confront them when...
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Block & Pierre
Ups and downs in an unlikely relationship between an occasional Rhode Island thoroughbred horse trainer who is a full time barroom philosopher, and an unemployed waiter. The trainer's friends and acquaintances add to the appeal of this tale and t...
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The Brick King
An abandoned Federal Housing Project in Pawtucket, RI is the for a meeting between a grieving sketch artist / writer and a most likely to succeed fellow from childhood. The plot involves money as in blackmail and a woman.The 521 Magazine, previously ...
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The Cards That Bind
A bewitching coming of age tale involving two ninth-grade Catholic school kids that begins at Sunday Mass, grows while on a class trip to RI School of Design Museum.I am most grateful to The Rail (Derailleur Press), previous publisher of “The C...
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Care for a Menthol?
A young man recently discharged from the Navy heads to Colorado at the urging of a former shipmate who has enrolled in college there. During the bus trip, Jack Kerouac finds his way into this pilgrim's life.I am most grateful to Spank the Carp Journa...
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Career Choices
Career Choices is about repaying favors even if what's required to set things straight is illegal and riskier than any reasonable citizen would expect. Jim Laker and Robbie Rowel occupy he platforms on this sensitive scale.Many thanks to the previous...
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The Catania Paper Bag Caper
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 go...
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Clara's Timely Birthday Gift
Dean Dawson, his girlfriend Clara and their friend Madame Chung, a restaurateur, focus on the year 1924 and the doings of a stranger named Howard.Once Upon A Crocodile Magazine, previously published this tale under the title “Dean and Clara Fin...
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Copperheads and Cary
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...
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Detailing, An Alzheimer's Tale
Detailing concerns a man going to visit his mother in a nursing home for the first time. He uses many measures to divert his mind from the situation and the guilt that hounds him. He revisits the past throughout his time with his uncommunicative moth...
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Flatirons Flight
Tom Dexter travels to Colorado at the urging of a childhood friend enrolled at the University of Colorado. Boulder is not the promised land Jay Harkert built it up to be. This story was previously published by The Sunflower Collective under the title...
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The Great Postal Escape
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...
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Hot And High At the Uptown Downy
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 Lit...
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Knucklehead the Cat
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 Pro...
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Lofty
Lofty reminisces on the beginnings of his relationship with Lydia Cory that took place in a restaurant in Florida called the Fillet and Claw where Lydia waited table and Lofty washed dishes. Freddie the waiter figures prominently. Lydia's shenanigans...
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Lydia
In 2016, a long, short story titled Saints Alive was accepted by Typeface Magazine. I signed a publication contract. Two weeks later it as rejected. I broke the story down into five pieces. Lydia: An Introduction is the first. Lydia is a troubled and...
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Lydia and Lofty
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 Introdu...
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Lydia Lofty Hugie & Rustin
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 Introducti...
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Mr. Silhouette-Head
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 charact...
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News of Us Hitching
This tale takes place in Virginia Beach in the sixties. Tom Wales works first at as a clerk at the Viking Hotel then as a bartender trainee at the Rathskeller Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge. Three women, one a cop, dramatically remodel his life....
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The Overcoat Trio
This story's action is propelled by a displaced circus barker's love of expensive clothing. His obsession impacts not only his existence but the lives of his business partners, also refugees from the big top, one an acrobat the other a roustabout....
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Sewage
Sewage is a 2,359-word story that is dark as pitch. It is a tale that feeds on abuse, revelation, comeuppance, corruption, and conflagration.Close to the Bone, previously published “Sewage” under the title “Of Duck and Timex,”...
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She Left A Deuce Tip
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....
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Siobhan Shows Up
Sensible for once, I opened a bank account after putting aside cash for an NBA adventure, train fare to Atlanta, and incidentals. I traveled in style, Amtrak roomette. I felt like a high roller checking into a Courtyard Marriott....
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Two Flash Fictions
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 an...
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Weber O Lantern & Suefly
1) Harrowing account of a jailed war veteran and his son imprisoned elsewhere. A man visiting the vet makes the situation worse.2) A sailor in a foreign port encounters a lady-of-the-night and St. Francis....
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Wite-Out Speckling His Fingers
This 3,205 word story concerns alarming details a man finds among his murdered father's personal effects that lead to painful recollections of youth and fling open the door for guilt, suspicion and escape..This tale was previously published by the Sc...
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With Clarence and Sonia at St. Sunday's
This story is of the coming of age variety, specifically a father / son relationship and the methods a man will employ to initiate his boy to the ways of the world and flesh not taught in classrooms.Baseball, horse racing and most importantly pool ar...