A stunning murder of a man and the death of a six year old boy catapult you into the world of Francesco "Cheech" Caruso. Jaw dropping truth brings the story to a close. "Only Yesterdays" reveals the dichotomy of Caruso -- passionate in life, with a golden tenor voice, uncompromising love and hands blood stained from murder. The reader is struck with raw frankness contrasted against poetry from the heart. "Only Yesterdays" is as unpredictable as the wind - twisting and turning through the life of an immigrant up against money, power and the court system in 1927. A star studded defense team...

If we survive birth, we all land somewhere. My landing was at 1579 Madison Ave, New York NY 10029 to the talented, gifted and aggressive Caruso clan. It chronicles my life until I reached a point when fate gave me a choice to make. Continue the same old same old or change my ways....

The Short Writing World of Dominic Caruso is an accumulation of writings by Dominic over the last fifty-five years of his life. Everything from poems, prose and short stories to notes, reflections and first chapters of existing and soon to be published books.

This is the tragic tale of a young man, the story of my father Francesco Cheech Caruso and his native country of Sicily. As the youngest of seven sons born to Pasqualina and Joseph Caruso of Caltagirone Sicily, the burden of managing the family business and farm fell to him over the protest of his older brothers. The chain of events that led him as a young man to leave all he knew to seek a new life in a country that he knew nothing about are compelling and life altering. The decision he made would always be regretted and never be reversed. He could never go home. No one can.