Thank you, dadioflex! Thank you for reading my work and buying my book.
Yes, my short story "The Bicycles Were Gravestones" is available on google.
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http://www.storyglossia.com/28/fz_bicycles.html)
I am pleased that you enjoyed it so much. That you said "The turn of phrase in the descriptions was perfect." is wonderful.
And anybody can check it out through google or bing. I hope everybody enjoys it as much as you have, that they enjoy both the story and the writing.
That story is also on Kindle. (And through smashwords. Can I say that here?) As an e-story, it's only 99 cents. So folks can use the Internet or power up their e-reader. (And if you enjoy it, please stop by Aamazon and leave a short review saying why it's so wonderful. (Is my humility wearing off? Oops.)
Also available on google is my nonfiction piece "Frederick Zackel Looks Back at his Mentor" which I mentioned above in a reply. (There I am with my beautiful cat .. who is no longer with us. He would leap up onto my shoulder and ride around like a parrot all day. He is missed every day.)
http://januarymagazine.com/features/zackel.html
Please don't bother with any of those links that promise you the lowdown on me or promise to network with me. They are just scams, and I resent their hints of intimacy with me. They lie. We never met; we never will.
And thank you, too, for buying the paperback of Cocaine and Blue Eyes. But you should have saved money by getting through E-bay or one of Amazon's used book providers. My paperback publisher claims my book has been out of print for the past three years, but keeps selling it on Amazon and won't send me a statement. I have zip sympathy for him.
Anyone without a Kindle: buy the cheap used paper versions until Santy Claus brings all of us our own e-readers.
Again, thank you, dadioflex, for enjoying my work.
I hope to add more as soon as possible.
Fred
It's summer. Be cool.