WE CAME TO FIGHT A WAR emanates from the heart, mind and memory of 85 year old Al Kotler, who was barely twenty when he climbed onto a fully armed B-17 in the dense, fog filled morning, in Foggia, Italy, having no idea whether he or his fellow crew members would still be alive by afternoon. Yes this is a war story-a war story that takes the reader viscerally through heart pounding moments of aerial combat and the reactions, feelings and reflections that go with it. But as it unfolds, a larger story emerges-the story of an unconscionable wrong inflicted upon one of the Army Air Corps best-a...

IT'S OKAY TO LIE IF YOUR FINGERS ARE CROSSED TIME: August, 1950. PLACE: A suburb north of Fenway Park This title, "It's Okay to Lie if Your Fingers are Crossed," is based on a ritual kids perpetrated in the forties and fifties, which exempted them from the LIAR label, providing they crossed their fingers behind them, unbeknownst to the person or persons to whom they were lying. The hero of the story is eleven year-old Billy Flynn, a schooled and consummate liar, who lives in a suburb north of Fenway Park. With the ironic bite of his sense of humor, his unusual way of surviving and seeing...

A love story: Jackie Riley and Joanie Callahan were teenage sweethearts at Gillingham High School from 1955-through 1957 and the first two years of college. Forty-three years later, Jackie is on the verge of publishing his first novel, when he stumbles upon the Classmates.com website and discovers that, like himself, Joanie is into her second marriage and living just over the New Hampshire/Maine line, only a few hours from his home in Massachusetts. Joanie (a school teacher) sends her first emails to Jackie from her school computer and it all flows from that beginning. There is mutual...