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Streetcar Sandwiches is a screenplay showing the efforts the owner of a sandwich shop in Uptown New Orleans undertakes to keep her business running. Not only does she have to deal with a menagerie of all types of employees, she has to comply with onerous and often conflicting regulations from several government bureaus. How she handles what turns into an ordeal threatens to change her naturally optimistic and pleasant personality. It leads directly to an outcome that could only have occurred in the Big Easy.

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Thunder in the Wind “Thunder in the Wind” is an historical novel about the deculturization of reservation Indians in the late eighteen hundreds. The story shows how the Assiniboine, and one family in particular, dealt with being subjected to an Indian Bureau that subscribed to the ethic popular at the time of “white man’s burden.”

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Keys to the "V" Door Keys to the 'V' Door is a 150000 word novel set in New Orleans and off shore during the oild boom of the late seventies and early eighties. It is a coming of age adventure story of privileged youth who instead of getting to enjoy a maturity of social advantages finds he has to redress a wrong he committed as he tries to prove his father didn't cheat the IRS. During his odyssey, Randall Cunningham recovers from the destitution he is reduced to when his father is arrested to track down an invoice he is sure would prove his innocence.

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The Menagerie: An Anthology Dawn licked a mountainous skyline red. Tentative shafts of light peaked over the summits, one by one lighting the valley below, sparkling the dew. Birds shook off sleep to begin singing. Rodents scurried about in blurs of motion, afraid of the predators who hugged the shadows. Winds rushed down the exposed slopes to rustle the naked hemlocks on the foothills before shaking the skeletal spruce and alder on the valley floor. It was late summer, high up on the Continental Divide.

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Curtis Orloff is an oilfield geologist whose background was devoid of snobbery. The vicissitudes of the oil industry saw him alternately wearing a suit in a downtown office, coveralls in deserts and jungles, and the uniform of a utility company employee, reading meters. In one downturn, he taught special needs children. In another, he peeled shrimp and delivered po'boys in New Orleans. It was then he saw the drama and comedy on display in a popular sandwich shop. He worked with colorful people from all walks of life while getting to know the business and the problems the owner had to deal with. Ultimately, he returned to the oil industry and did so well he bought into the business. That it went bankrupt did not diminish the glowing memories of all he saw and experienced, as well as of the people he met. The fact all involved were Orleanians ensured they landed on their feet, including the author, who made the city his adopted home.

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