Tales Of Modern Judea

Stories written long ago; cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with the thoughts of greatness and leaving a childhood in Flushing New York behind to conquer the world! Then I came back home back as a writer of fiction back to the same apartment in which I'd grown up. My father an angry out-of-work factory worker was still the asshole roared drank punched and ridiculed. While listening I wrote locked in a room pounding keys of an old Olivetti. Soon finished with a novel and story collection I sent them out. I imagined Madison Avenue publishers congratulating themselves on finding the next genius that is until my manuscripts were returned with a form rejection. Crushed and embarrassed. What did they know! Manuscripts streamed out across the U.S. followed by rejection. Eventually I got out and found jobs as a writer in Corporate America. The stories in this book date from that time.