Category: PART OF A SERIES
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MERCURY MAN, Chapter VI
When Bud Edwards woke up the morning of Tuesday, October 16th he had no desire to go into work. None. That was a first for Bud. He thought he might be coming down with something, but there were no symptoms of anything other than no longer giving a damn. He thought he might feel different on Wednesday. Then he figured…
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MERCURY MAN, Chapter V
By the mid-eighties Liberty Bell CPA and Financial Services was barely hanging on. The widow Bell had carried on after the premature death of her husband, Mansfield, but Liberty Bell never achieved the level of success it had before his demise. “Never really the same after that tramp stormed into town and turned Mansfield into a blithering idiot,” is…
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MERCURY MAN, Chapter IV
Bud hung on to his 1969 Mercury Monterey convertible longer than any other car he’d ever owned. He tried to justify it by talking about the low miles it had on it. Then, it was the rumors of all the American manufacturers phasing out convertibles. “Won’t even be able to buy a new one anymore,” he…
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MERCURY MAN, Chapter III
Joan never really cared for the Turnpike Cruiser. It reminded her of a time of despair and disappointment, just the opposite of what such a grand touring car should do. She never suggested they get rid of it. She knew it had been purchased as a thoughtful gesture to move beyond losing their second child and being told…
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MERCURY MAN, Chapter II
Life settled into a comfortable routine for the young married couple. To her surprise, Joan did not get pregnant on their honeymoon, as she thought she would. As she hoped she would, really. Bud was fine with that. He wanted a family as badly as Joan did, but also knew that it would mean big changes in their…
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MERCURY MAN, Chapter I
Perception is reality and fate is not to be toyed with. Once those two basic premises are accepted, the rest is easier to understand. The teen years are some of the toughest, primarily due to the line between perception and reality being so blurred. Add to that the fact that the understanding of fate is so narrow…
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WHAT DRIVES EILEEN, Chapter 19
Mason pondered leaving Whiskey right where he was, taking a shower and driving into town for breakfast. ‘Serves him right,’ he thought to himself as he trudged back towards the kitchen. But he went to the drawer that held the knives, grabbed what appeared to be the sharpest one, and slowly walked back down the…
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WHAT DRIVES EILEEN, Chapter 18
Faye Eastland was not a pretty girl by the standards of the time. Not homely, but not a beauty. Part of her awkwardness was probably due to her being so shy and reticent to engage with anyone. That, in turn, could be directly attributed to her mother, and the fact that her mother never had a good thing…
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WHAT DRIVES EILEEN, Chapter 17
Mason’s head was still throbbing from the night before. The endless cups of Folgers Lucinda poured him at the Grounds for Divorce did nothing to help the condition subside, nor did the parade just outside the window. The bourbon he’d downed in the bar of the Cattle Baron Hotel, topped off with several more in front of…
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WHAT DRIVES EILEEN, Chapter 16
“Still a Lincoln-Mercury man after all these years, huh?” Eileen noted as she looked around the cockpit of the Continental, Mason’s assets firmly within her grip. Mason took his eyes off the road long enough to glance over at Eileen. “I still have a thing for Continentals and Cougars.” The double meaning was not lost on her,…