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Gerald (with his son's input) give us a series of witty monologues and memoir entries concerning life in a typical elder home. As his mental and physical conditions deteriorate, he moves from Independent Living to Assisted Living and, finally, Death. An Army Air Corps veteran and retired aeronautical engineer, Gerald must now come to terms with the cold equations of "elder physics" and negotiate the challenges of living in an institution. Therein, he deals with pain and loss of independence, engages with fellow elders, and confronts the mysteries of the digital age. Between adventures, he...

Arthur Strewth Middlebrook suffers a brain event that leaves him with shotgun-mike hearing in one ear, and leaves a blood spill that looks, appropriately, like a sinking ship. Find out how this malady, both curse and blessing, changes his life and those around him. See this former art instructor, critic, now museum guard and budding geologist, use his pan-audicon hearing to suck the sound waves out of Chicago.

A Mockumental Work of the Imagination by J. A. Ellis, resident of Chicagary, Usonia. He is another Billy Pilgrim lost in a time of fascist violence and succession. "Tar Spackled Banner" is a 21st-century time-traveler's autobiography that recalls Fyodor Dostoevsky's anti-heroic protagonist's raves in "Notes from Underground" and the curious esoterics of Thomas Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus." Ellis takes the reader on a scripto-visual journey into our near future where the Goosestep is even more popular than the Soupy shuffle.