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A fast paced narrative about a straight-laced company man, a widower and single parent, and his beloved only daughter. He hits some bad luck and learns some tough life lessons just as his daughter prepares to enter college.
Night Work is a story of interior struggle and change.
In January, Curt Mellam, executive, widower and for five years a single parent, prices an imported sports car for a high school graduation present for Karen, his beloved only daughter, expecting her to drive it to Georgetown University in the coming fall. He bever completes the purchase. Instead by summmer, he is dodging bulllets as a moonlighting cab driver and wondering how he will ever pay tuition for Karen.
Formerly a straight-laced company man, Curt adapts and makes his way up in the pecking order of his new job. A street | |  | | Sea Chanteys and Other Poems
Poems about wartime sea duty on a U.S. Navy minesweeper and other hard tasks, such as growing up.
As if sweeping mines from shipping channels weren't hazard enough, during WWII before satellites were sailing through the skies to pinpoint locations of typhoons or hurricanes and to predict their paths, weather loomed as a constant menace, especially in the tropics, to small ships such as minesweepers. More so even than bombs or torpedoes. Or at least, riding out a hurricane made me believe so. And ship losses pretty much bear me out. So the poems in Sea Chanteys talk about storms as well as things that explode. And they talk about life at sea, for long, long times.
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