Twenty-Five for the Road
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Big Ed And Little Eddie: 1-19 Odd child
The Canyon: 20-61 Adventure
The Career Man: 62-81 Husband/wife relation
College Reunion: 82-97 College reunion oddities
Bugging Boggs: 98-130 Detective story
Willy's Last Caper: 131-191 Comic criminal
Going Home: 192-208 Science fiction
A Bottle For Hastings: 209-237 Detective story
Jideo: 238-256 Military situation
Highschool Reunion: 257-270 Hich school reunion
Country Sherlock: 271-300 Detective Story
Memories: 301-312 Science fiction
The Permanent Position: 313-329 Indian worker twist
The Numbers Game: 330-340 Detective Story
The Milenia Machine: 341-374 Trouble for inventor
Norcal: 375-392 Past memories
Rude Interruptions: 393-402 Trouble for autocrat
The Rebirth: 403-418 Got needed inspiration
The New Pioneer: 419-474 Adventure
Time For A Change: 475-493 Science fiction
Tuck And Tad: 494-528 Detective Story
Willy's Big Break: 529-570 Comic criminal
Veteran's Day: 571-577 Veterans big day
Tony In Wonderland: 578-585 Science fiction
The Warehouse: 586-603 Adventure & Detective
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About the Book
My military and Foreign Service involved a lot of traveling. I would often buy a book at an airport or station to read on a trip, then find that the book was boring. For the rest of those trips I'd try to think up short stories. If I had ever written them down, I'd now have hundreds, but I never wrote them and soon forgot them. Upon retiring, in boredom, I started writing short stories and articles. Upon completing twenty-five stories, I copyrighted them and looked for publishers. First Books was the first to take them up. The subtitle of Twenty-Five for the Road is "Short Stories for Travelers." In remembrance of my traveling days, I thought that if travelers found some of the stories boring they would still have others to read on trips.
About the Author
After fourteen years in the U.S. Marines and twenty-seven years in the Foreign Service of USAID, (Agency for International Development, America's foreign aid program) I retired and, to minimize boredom, began to write short stories and articles. I also wrote a training manual, which is still in use at USAID. During my active federal service I went to sixty-one countries, living in five of them for one to five years. I visited the other countries for two days to two months to temporarily replace someone or to work at special short-term jobs. My primary work was in logistics, such as renting office space or residences for American employees, getting customs clearances, contracting, running a warehouse and motor pool, and keeping property records.