Pins & Tickles

by Wolf


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Softcover
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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 22/10/2004

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 364
ISBN : 9781418497521

About the Book

Life is full of “Pins”. Pins are the not so funny, often unusual things that happen in every life. Very often they cause little shots of pain, pain that can usually be forgotten. “Tickles” are the shots of humor that sometimes come through the pain; often making someone laugh. Wolf’s short stories are intended to tickle the sad and maybe stick some pins in the over confident people that are laying around our globe waiting for it.


About the Author

Wolf (Bob) started moving around once he left Pennsylvania at the age of five. After normal schooling in N.J., a start in college at Wilkes College in PA, a two-year stint in the Army in Oklahoma, three years in college in Indiana to get a BSCE in Civil Engineering, and a few years in N.J. working as an engineer, Wolf decided to travel. The fact that he had already gone through two marriages helped him make this decision. This decision turned out to be a good one because at the age of 45 he met and married his third wife...in Africa. Between the work in N.J. and the meeting of the third wife in Africa, Wolf had lived and worked in Viet Nam, Thailand, Iran, England, and Germany with frequent visits to Lebanon, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Greece, Italy and some places he voluntarily forgets. He still speaks fluent German at home, has spoken Italian, had a good handle on spoken Thai, got by in Farsi and has some trouble remembering English. His writing is an attempt at humor and surprise. The stories are “adult” reading but absolutely not sexual; Wolf refuses to write sexual detail, assuming that every adult knows all those words anyway, he concentrates rather on treating situations with humor.

 

Stories 11 (The Membrane) and 12 (The One Hundred Percenter) are the only two exceptions to the last statement.  There are reasons for these exceptions, not revealed here but, if you start The One Hundred Percenter, please read it to the last word.