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Overview
Free will? God’s will?
In the winter of 2011, Fred Woody Jr. deplanes in Dulles Airport in Washington, DC. He hungers for fame and fortune by winning a multi-million-dollar Texas Hold ‘Em Poker tournament.
Over the next three days, no obstacle will get in his way, or so he believes. Mishaps soon occur. Fred relives his personal misdeeds and pushes through many road bumps on his journey to the Atlantic City casino. Along the way, he meets several folks—some good, some bad, and some in-between. The choices he makes—both good and bad—define his every step.
Travel through the confines of Fred’s mind. See the world through his eyes. Share his experiences and learn from them.
You won’t find jingle bells or singing reindeer in this unique Christmas story, but you will discover a heart or two on the river.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780692390009 |
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Publisher: | L. D. B. Press |
Publication date: | 03/20/2020 |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d) |
About the Author
In 2007, fired as county manager for no good reason from a place he'd previously managed for six productive years, he mistitled, and under-achieved with a textbook/cathartic memoir-boats, knots, other things.
Undaunted, John sold health insurance and stocks and bonds, and then served five (5) twelve (12)-month tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Senior Governance Advisor for the US Department of State.
Since 2013, Scribes Valley, Stone Canoe Literary Journal, AnotheRealm, the Magazine of Speculative Fiction, Andrews UK Limited (House of Erotica), WildSound Novel Writing Festival, and Stringybark Stories have published his scribblings. Thrice, he's successfully participated in Nanowrimo. In November 2013, he drafted All the Bay's Clams and All the Bay's Men. Six years and multiple re-writes later, this novel is soon-to-be published.
His genres are adult contemporary, dark comedy, farcical, horror, erotic, and non-fiction. A believer in pre-destination and Divine Providence, John opines the endings to each of his manuscripts are not entirely his own.
Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, New York, where he dug clams for eight summer seasons, John was schooled at Notre Dame and Syracuse, with detours to Mexico City, Mexico, Raleigh, NC, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Since 1979, he has worked as a public servant in southeastern North Carolina. There, he and his wife raised three children and currently have five grandchildren.
Oldmanwrite-website and brand-reflects by any quantitative measure, John is old.
Qualitatively? That part of his BIO has yet to be written.
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS i
DAY ONE
CHAPTER ONE 1
CHAPTER TWO 11
CHAPTER THREE 15
CHAPTER FOUR 19
CHAPTER FIVE 27
CHAPTER SIX 37
CHAPTER SEVEN 43
CHAPTER EIGHT 51
CHAPTER NINE 59
CHAPTER TEN 67
CHAPTER ELEVEN 71
CHAPTER TWELVE 79
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 89
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 101
DAY TWO
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 109
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 119
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 129
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 133
CHAPTER NINETEEN 137
CHAPTER TWENTY 143
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 147
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 153
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 171
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 179
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 187
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 195
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 207
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 209
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 217
DAY THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY 229
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE 233
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO 239
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE 243
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR 249
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE 255
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX 259
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN 267
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT 275
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE 281
CHAPTER FORTY 287
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE 291
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO 297
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE 301
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR 307
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE 315