Dante Benedict and his cousin, Butchie Marlowe, were the Wiffle Kings. Alfred Benedict, Dante's bother, and their cousin, Ricky Valentine, were the Orbies. No, these weren't teenage gangs, these were two-man wiffle ball teams. This Fearsome Foursome spent their summers during the late 1950's and early 1960's in rural New Jersey, where their families had a three-home compound bordering on the Musconetcong River. Each summer they played a lot of wiffle ball, played a lot of teenage pranks, socialized with the girls down the road, swam, fished, and tubed in the river, hiked in the woods, and...

These poems and short stories were buried away in file folders, loose-leaf binders and spiral notebooks in various nooks and crannies of the author's desk and shelves. Recently, he mined some of the best examples of these nuggets, dusted them off, refined and polished them. The result is this volume. The poetry as well as the prose is random in subject matter including nature, romance, humor, horror, philosophy, and crime.