New Novel Chinese Restaurants Unveils 1990s Politics of Defense Both Foreign and Domestic
In Spring 1992, Washington’s top defense lobbyists hone their best pitches bent on winning the lion’s share of military contracts. Except for Will Day, Director of Public Affairs at Computer Control, Inc., who sits at home trying to write a poem. A first-rate rainmaker, Will leads the congressional princes to the trough term after term, assuring safe harbor for ComCon’s top-flight program QuarterMaster. After 20 years, however, he feels worn out from breeding, feeding, and bleeding the house princes to keep ComCon’s coffers full. This year is no different.
Will longs to return to the days when he hoped to be an English professor working nights as a poet. Rest would come in winsome dreams during days beneath giant campus palm trees. But he has a family now, two misunderstandable teenagers and his lovely demanding wife who also seeks success at ComCon. Will is ready to pack it in, but the rest of the players are not, not at all. And they have their own game plans for what could be the longest year of his career. Chinese Restaurants follows Will as he negotiates what promises to be the most interesting time of his life.
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New Science Fiction Story Posted about Searching Space for Treasure Amid Refuse
New Poem about Things to Come Maybe
On Judgement Day has just been posted, a poem that treats a bit of religious thought through somewhat gentle secular lens. Here’s hoping that readers enjoy it.
Announcing the New Novel Maybe Tomorrow by Jim O’Donnell
From 1969 to 1970, Jim O’Donnell found himself in Vietnam, drafted directly out of graduate school. Though opposed to the war, he felt fortunate for being assigned to the Army’s civil affairs unit charged with helping displaced locals. Sent to language school, O’Donnell learned Vietnamese that gave him greater access to the people. He discovered it to be a mixed blessing as he witnessed closely and deeply their terrible hardships.
Nearly fifty years later, O’Donnell decided to share his experiences in a novel about Vietnam. Maybe Tomorrow illustrates the harsh realities of the brutal ironies created by the Vietnam war in a unique and utterly moving way. Just published by Wylisc press, you can read the first chapter “Soldier of Fortune” now, posted below. Now available at Amazon, you can order your own copy of Maybe Tomorrow by clicking on the cover image shown on the right.
Read a Poem of Longing in the Wake of Loss
The loss of loved ones brings pain that seems ours for forever. We yearn in sorrow for a place where they still live with us. In Memory calls out for a cherished three just gone: Joan (Jet) Price, John Hetterick, and Hugh Conor McDowell. Long for them and for your own to be together again in such a place.
