author - "Patrick Sean Lee"
Frank, Jimmy McGuire's electrocuted pet snake, is in animal heaven, praying for revenge. Miss Marilou Jenkins is at her private girls' school across town, knocking down straight-A's. Skip Morley is scratching his head, trying to stay out of trouble and get straight C's. Jimmy doesn't care; he's bringing the English language down to new lows. Skip's mom decides one gorgeous Spring afternoon that he is going to go to Saturday evening Benediction services with herself and his father. No ifs, ands,
The neighborhood kids have inadvertently started a young girl's hair on fire at the local theater...and then fled the scene of the crime. Hiding behind the neighborhood library...having the "matchgun" technology explained to two of the boys by the oldest member of the "gang"...the little snot "Dennis" spots them and blackmail ensues. Dennis winds up with the matchgun...:) "Bordering the broad parkway, towering elms stood, perfectly aligned and spaced. They
Hell. It brings shudders to everyone, if only in our secret thoughts. What do YOU imagine it to be? A nightmarish kingdom such as the one Hieronymus Bosch envisioned, perhaps? A perilous account by Dante, guided by Virgil? What would happen if you were unjustly sentenced to go there...without an explanation why? For all Eternity? I received a package in the mail recently, wrapped in a battered and soot-blackened wrapping. Intrigued, yet somewhat wary of the contents that might lie within, I
Rollo Heinz, burglar extraordinaire, gets nabbed one night. Sent off to jail, issued a pair of sneakers ten sizes too large, he sits handcuffed in the holding tank, waiting for admission into the main population. He has a vision...across the room hangs a painting, the famous Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. The nametag in bronze on its frame says, "Painted by Laverne "Buddy" Budd, Antonio "Zippo" Gonzalez, and Rollo Heinz. What the...? Rollo is admitted, and what
Winner of the 2015 Official Member Writing Contest (OMWC) An administrator to the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad is sent on a mission to establish the arts and sciences in a small city sitting on the banks of the Tigris in 1,000 A.D. He enters a Kaveh Kanes incognito one evening, followed by an assassin... The modern coffee house took its "modern" form in the Islamic Empire during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphs many centuries after the birth of Christ. Baghdad was the center of
In 2005 I finished the first draft of The Redemption of Marvin Fuster. I loved the version in which...Marvin has just burned down the clothing store a few hours ago. Maribeth, daughter of the governor, has run over him as he flees the scene of the crime, and taken him home to The Governor's Mansion, filled with sorrow for having been speeding in her Mercedes roadster...again. Daddy is NOT happy when he discovers a bum living in his basement. I found the governor's character a bit unrealistic,
Frank, Jimmy McGuire's electrocuted pet snake, is in animal heaven, praying for revenge. Miss Marilou Jenkins is at her private girls' school across town, knocking down straight-A's. Skip Morley is scratching his head, trying to stay out of trouble and get straight C's. Jimmy doesn't care; he's bringing the English language down to new lows. Skip's mom decides one gorgeous Spring afternoon that he is going to go to Saturday evening Benediction services with herself and his father. No ifs, ands,
The neighborhood kids have inadvertently started a young girl's hair on fire at the local theater...and then fled the scene of the crime. Hiding behind the neighborhood library...having the "matchgun" technology explained to two of the boys by the oldest member of the "gang"...the little snot "Dennis" spots them and blackmail ensues. Dennis winds up with the matchgun...:) "Bordering the broad parkway, towering elms stood, perfectly aligned and spaced. They
Hell. It brings shudders to everyone, if only in our secret thoughts. What do YOU imagine it to be? A nightmarish kingdom such as the one Hieronymus Bosch envisioned, perhaps? A perilous account by Dante, guided by Virgil? What would happen if you were unjustly sentenced to go there...without an explanation why? For all Eternity? I received a package in the mail recently, wrapped in a battered and soot-blackened wrapping. Intrigued, yet somewhat wary of the contents that might lie within, I
Rollo Heinz, burglar extraordinaire, gets nabbed one night. Sent off to jail, issued a pair of sneakers ten sizes too large, he sits handcuffed in the holding tank, waiting for admission into the main population. He has a vision...across the room hangs a painting, the famous Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. The nametag in bronze on its frame says, "Painted by Laverne "Buddy" Budd, Antonio "Zippo" Gonzalez, and Rollo Heinz. What the...? Rollo is admitted, and what
Winner of the 2015 Official Member Writing Contest (OMWC) An administrator to the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad is sent on a mission to establish the arts and sciences in a small city sitting on the banks of the Tigris in 1,000 A.D. He enters a Kaveh Kanes incognito one evening, followed by an assassin... The modern coffee house took its "modern" form in the Islamic Empire during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphs many centuries after the birth of Christ. Baghdad was the center of
In 2005 I finished the first draft of The Redemption of Marvin Fuster. I loved the version in which...Marvin has just burned down the clothing store a few hours ago. Maribeth, daughter of the governor, has run over him as he flees the scene of the crime, and taken him home to The Governor's Mansion, filled with sorrow for having been speeding in her Mercedes roadster...again. Daddy is NOT happy when he discovers a bum living in his basement. I found the governor's character a bit unrealistic,