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Surviving the Night
The story follows Polack and LG during an overnight watch at a Listening Post (LP) outside their new firebase in Vietnam's Iron Triangle jungle. Their task is to serve as an early warning system, dete...
By: John Podlaski
Empty Seats
In 1972, the Montreal Expos send their newly drafted minor-league baseball players to Jamestown, New York, to play their first season in Single-A ball. Every one of these guys had been the cream of th...
A Few Bumps
A chance encounter on an airplane during a snowstorm introduces Amy Moran to a handsome man whose family is wealthy. Amy, on the other hand, comes from a lower middle-class family. She's stranded in K...
Still Doing Time
Boston. 1976. Former minor league baseball player Jimmy Bailey leaves prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. He's been promised a job at Fenway Park by the owner of the Boston Red Sox...
The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age
When Maine’s James G. Blaine mocked the “grandiloquent swell” and “overpowering turkey-gobbler strut” of New York’s Roscoe Conkling in 1866, he ignited a bitter feud that dominated America...
Seven Years From Tomorrow
A speculative mystery of second chances, fate, and everything left to lose.When fifty-three-year-old Jack Soladay learns he has eighteen months to live, he must confront a lifetime of regrets filled w...
By: John L. Thompson
Digested by the Dust
If the dead could speak from their graves, what would they tell us, the living, about their insights on life and longevity? In Digested by the Dust, the dead come alive again and reveal details about ...
By: Stark Hunter
In A Gadda Da Vida
17 minutes... so much can happen to a person in 17 minutes... ones life can dramatically change during those one thousand and twenty seconds of inexorable time... In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by the Iron Butter...
By: Stark Hunter
White Sidewalks
Life is just a stroll on a white sidewalk-Every scene and sound a private mirror in time.I have purchased it all with cupcakes and memorized prayers. Time now to drink this soul elixir from this ...
By: Stark Hunter
The Pink Oleanders
Anti-Poet, Stark Hunter’s 13th opus tells the story of the Moore Family, spanning three generations, from 1931 to 1969, using virtual film scenes written in anti-poetry form. With all the action tak...
By: Stark Hunter
Running in the Dark
Written with great attention to detail, putting the reader solidly in John’s shoes.Cleverly Written, Dynamic StorytellingJohn survived Vietnam, but first, he survived DetroitThis collection of short...
By: John Podlaski
2-27-70
Detail-rich story that keeps the reader engagedGreat introduction to the life of a young man heading to warThought-provoking memoir with smiles and tearsMr. Podlaski is well known for his accounts of ...
By: John Podlaski