The Listerine Lunatic Hits Hoboken and Other Strange Tales by Patricia E. Flinn is a collection of short stories that takes the reader from the gritty, ultra-realistic streets and tenements of Hoboken to a world of imagination where everything may or may not be of this world.

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,...

A bittersweet tale about the love story between a college professor and his student who despite many obstacles, marry, and live happily together for forty-six wonderful years, writing novels, plays, poems, and non fiction, while raising generations of golden retrievers and shelter dogs in their 240 year old home in New Jers

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...