Mike Palecek's new novel Speak English tells what happened when some rowdy teenagers encountered an alien, somewhere around 1970. Why did they shoot it? What were the consequences? Was it really an alien, or maybe a mental patient? How did this incident affect these three when they grew up? Did they ever meet another alien? To find out, read Speak English. Buy it here or get the ebook at https: //www.smashwords.com/books/view/5416

Johnny Moon represents a new direction for Mike Palecek. Straying from his traditional emphasis on present-day or near-future adult protagonists who end up in prison when they refuse to kowtow to the powers that be, Palecek's new novel features Johnny Moon, a likable 1963 schoolkid. Johnny, his schoolmates, Sister Mark and the other faculty, and a couple of workmen one of whom has been living in the basement of the Catholic school. The unlikely cast of characters are involved in an even more unlikely scenario: the boiler may actually be a time machine, the nuns aliens, and President Kennedy's...

The American Vision. The American Journey. Land of Liberty. The Commies are Coming. The Commies are Coming The Criminals Are Coming The Terrorists Are Coming Big Bees It's that time of year again. Time for the release of the new sophomore textbook,

Harvard Finn. Cleans at a local restaurant. He writes. He wants to change the world by sitting in the hard plastic booth and writing on his notebook paper. Hope says there is a chance. To become famous, well-known and change the world. And become famous in the meantime. But where is Hope. Can't find her anywhere, it seems. The revolution. Good thing? Fantasy? The people do not have hope, it seems. But Harvey Finn does, off and on, now and again. The revolution. Is it coming, like Jesus, on the wings of a dove, on a cloud? Perhaps. Perhaps. And perhaps it is coming by the pencil of an old man...