A Sunday dinner is the difference between what was and what is and perhaps the only way to "fix" things.
Vincent Palazzo's new thriller begins and ends with lasagna and cannoli. For six year old Tim Abate and sixty year old Tim Abate everything in between is a dangerous mix of warm and fuzzy and dark and disturbing.
Tim Abate is obsessed with memories of his childhood. He thinks about adventures with Mom and Dad, summer vacations at the lake and Sunday dinners with the family. Especially Sunday dinners. They were always his favorite time of the week.
As he remembers all the things that made him smile, Tim finds anger. Anger is all he has left. All he wanted, all he ever wanted, was the life he had growing up - to pass that on to his children - but that is no longer possible; the fun ended when life with Mirtanda began. Everything he cherished started to die, started to fall away like so many dead leaves off a dying tree, when he met his wife.
In the darkest corner of his brain, Tim concocts one outlandish scheme after another - desperate doodles that become more plausible with each passing day and each warming glass of scotch. With a little stealth, Tim decides hecan reclaim his birthright and his legacy.
Only one question remains: will his plan be a recipe for disaster or salvation.
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My school, my elementary school, at least, had a strange look. It was a squat, four story, block-wide, brown brick building devoid of exterior ornamentations. It could very easily have been a factory or, if you believe those of us who went there, a prison. The school had two entrances, both double-wide steel gray doors. My entrance, the boy’s entrance, was through the back of the building. The girls entered through virtually identical double doors on the opposing side of the school; wooden crosses were affixed to their doors though I couldn’t say what they guarded against. None of the girls looked like vampires from a Peter Cushing film. There was never anything that exotic entering Our Lady of Perpetual Pain.
Perry Conners, Arizona tycoon and soon-to-be politician, can't sleep or make love anymore, and he's losing all sense of reality. Is it the Devil's fault?
Boom! Pain! Blackness!
After an RPG attack on their barracks in Afghanistan, corpsmen, Amber Fox, Luke Owens , Wade Scott and Ross Miller wake up in an Army hospital in Germany.
Thus, begins a months long recovery for all of them. A
