"It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City" by Eugene C. Flinn is a collection of 21 short stories that include an actress whose strict mother does not know she is going on stage naked, a kid who has words with Santa Claus, an elderly woman who advises the manager of the New York Giants, a mobster who buys a fashionable magazine to impress his girl friends, school children who steal Montcalm's head, a nun who gives the finger to a rude truck driver, a wedding guest who finds himself at the "Reject Table," horse players who unknowingly stumble on two genuine Monet paintings...

One More for the Road: 40 Tales of Ireland, Hoboken and Other Faraway Places is a collection of short stories that mixes comedy, satire, sex, love, and stories of World War II.

The Inn of the Seventy-Seven Clocks combines mystery and comedy, featuring a notorious underworld figure who writes stories for little children and a Jewish billionaire with designs on being Pope.

Short Description of The Counterfeit Nun and Three Mysteries The Counterfeit Nun is a story of two lovers, Luke and Jennifer, who have a difficult time getting together because she is a student at a conservative women's college Jennifer, who works part-time in the office of the Mother Superior, intercepts a letter from Sister Mary Terese, a nun-scholar about to visit the college and, forging her boss's name, writes to Sister Mary asking her to delay her visit for a couple of months. Then she dresses Luke in a nun's outfit and passes him off as Sister Mary. Fortunately no one at Marydale...

Members of the English Department of Zarathustra College in northern New England are moderately weird colleagues in fair weather, but when a mid-December blizzard traps them in the English Department's windowless office without electricity or heat, they become strange bedfellows indeed. Wandering about with only the light of a few candles, they trip over what appears to be a body of one of their colleagues. They cannot be sure, however, because this particular body has no head. The president of the college, who bought his Ph.D. from a place called Ersatz University for $24,995, has a head,...

If, as you are going through your mail on a late autumn afternoon, you open a parcel with a slide and photographs of what appears to be a beautiful silver train soaring above the clouds high over a majestic lake without any visible means of support, and in the same envelope there is verification from the United States Air Force that this slide is authentic, not having been doctored in any way according to extensive tests, what would you do? Lisa and Paul O'Donnell, two high school teachers who received the parcel, sought to mail it to Bergen Townsend, the man whose name and address they found...

The 37 stories in The 1774 House and Other Stories are almost as diverse as human experience itself. Here we have tales of eighteen century houses, one rich with the grandeur of the past and another equally historic, but mysterious at the same time. And scarcely a page away is a brief but telling story of twenty-first century dwellings. ("A Tale of Two Condos.") There are stories of parents and their children, of the joy of sex and of gossip about sex in unconventional places like a church confessional, of unexpected encounters in an old country store, of music, magic, Chaucer, travel, food,...

Trixie Triphammer's Magical Christmas: the plot Alone in her bedroom at night while her parents were Christmas shopping, little Laura Brown had a strange visitor: a female midget in a St. Louis Cardinal baseball uniform who entered her locked window without breaking the glass. She introduced herself as Trixie Triphammer and said she was here to enlist Laura's aid in saving all the turkeys from the ovens of Noddington, the little town where Laura lived. By a robust swing of her tiny bat Trixie was able to draw the frozen turkeys from freezers throughout the houses and stores of the village and...

The seventy-plus poems and songs in this eclectic collection range in style and tone from playful and whimsical to tender, nostalgic and romantic. Golden Retrievers, crazy cats, love, old age, marriage, cities at night, changing seasons, loneliness, baseball, the shifting face of nature, the elusiveness of time, and the pain of loss and death are some of its many diverse and unconventional subjects. Vivid images and concise lyrical description bring to life an old woman on A Porch in Mendham, New Jersey, and in the poem Winter Sky we see the last of the sun frolicking with azure-tinted clouds...