Ramblings

Milton Pashcow Is An Author Of Numerous Short Stories And Books Namely Sicilian Escapade The Triumvirate And Painted Pathways. His Personal Travels In War Torn Nazi Europe And Its Butchered Humans Have Broadened Our Understanding Of The Folly Of War And Prejudice In Modern Times. Sicilian Escapade Is His True-Life Story About His Love Affair And Romance In Battled Scarred Italy During World War Ii The Triumvirate The Fiction Time Travel Story Of A Modern Day Gifted Researcher Whose Bizarre Meeting With Another Gifted Researcher Who Lived Over One Hundred Years Earlier In Their Search To Find A Single Cure For All Cancers. The Young Evocative Sister Of This Distant Doctor Brings To The Heart And Soul A Series Of Thrilling Adventures That Not Only Find The Cure But Bring This Young Lady Through The Comic Misadventures Of Space Travel And The Bristling Manhattan Welcome Of 2010 With A Love Affair That Spans Two Centuries. Painted Pathways Guides Us Through The Separate Escapes Of The Authors’ Future Parents From Early Twentieth Century Despotic Russia And Immigrating To The Land Of Freedom And Opportunity The United States. The Escape Is Fused With Life Threatening Terror And The Subsequent Tragic Murder Of The Czar’S Family And The Story Of Rasputin The Courtesan Devil Who Kept The Czar’S Hemophilic Son Alive. My Collection Of Short Stories Began One Afternoon When My Book Writing Took A Turn Into A Dead-End Street. Such Periods Give Rise To Mental Escape Into New Pathways Of Inspiration. Sometimes By Necessity Completely Irrational Thoughts Disrupt Us Or Recalls Incidents Involving Friends And Relatives In Bizarre Interesting Situations Usually Long Forgotten. True Reminiscences Of Long Lost Sensitive Recurrences That Once Filled My Life – Early School Days Or As A Youngster I Observed Hard Pressed Relatives Seeking Comfort And Advice From My Dad Who Had Weathered The Financial Storm Of 1929; Salesmen With No Door To Door Market For Unwanted Or Unaffordable Gadgets. The Unemployed Never Faced The Withering Effects Of An Unsupportable Family; Greater Blow To Ego Than The Pocketbook. Short Story Subjects Vary From Hard Hit Seniors To A Pilot High In The Clouds Troubled By His Broken Family; To A Redeemed Street Walker; To Love Affairs Requited And Not So Requited; To Murder Mystery And To Heart Rendering Forgivable Infractions Of Law Committed By Hapless Offenders. I Hope These Stories Will Strike A Respondent Chord In The Back Log Of Your Memories Or As A Reminder Of Life’S Fascinating Vicissitudes. They Deserve Additional Dedication Credits Those Special Ramblers Who Warmed Their Fingers On The Smoldering Coals Of Lost Memories. My Own Abbreviated Autobiography As Far As I Can Recall Begins With A Ten-Year-Old Leading An Eager Group Of Neighboring Youngsters Eagerly Risking Life And Broken Bones Following My Roller Skate Jumping Antics; The Smoke Bombing Of Neighboring Apartment Building Lobbies For Which I Take Full Youthful Credit (Or Blame). One Such Experiment Brought Me To My Young Sobering Senses After The Precautionary Evacuation Of A Smoke-Filled Building Got Out Hand. That Disaster At Age Fourteen Together With A Sentimental Family Voyage To Its Roots In Eastern Europe In The Summer 1932 Sobered Me Further. The Poverty And Prejudice Seen There Brought A Different Teenager Back Home. No Longer A Rowdy Ring Leader; A Distinct Humanitarian Sensitive To The Cries Of Universal Suffering Everywhere. My Life Took On New Meaning With The Brilliance Of Advanced Progressive Thinking Brought On By The Wonders Of The Industrial Revolution. My Life Goals Were Encouraged To A Higher Optimistic Order Of. I Became Aware Of My True Self. The Image Of The Beggar’S Collection Cup That Once Overlaid A Corner Of My Campaign American Flag As A Symbol Of The Attention To The Needy People Of Our Wonderful Country Was Finally Eliminated. It Was Replaced By The Universal ‘V’ For Victory.