Work, With Occasional Molemen
Mel Kincaid’s an ordi­nary guy, unluck­ily born into an extra­or­di­nary fam­ily of low-​​class crim­i­nals and thieves. The family’s patri­arch, known only as the Old Man, rules his fam­ily as dic­ta­tor. Everyone pays a cut of their checks to the fam­ily, or the Old Man sends Aunt Livia’s boys to collect.

Mel pulls late shifts for the tire plant, but the rumor around Topeka is that the com­pany is mov­ing the plant. Mel and his saucer-​​crazed cousin Chet work odd jobs, hop­ing to stay afloat and keep the Old Man off their backs. It’s not a great life, but it’s his, mostly free and clear.

That is, until a chance encounter with a mole man derails Mel’s mostly sta­ble life and send­s him into direct con­flict with the Old Man. Along the way, Mel ducks his blood thirsty cousins, attempts to pawn jew­els dug up from the cen­ter of the earth, and strug­gles to learn why the enig­matic mole men have sud­denly taken such an inter­est in him.

A darkly satir­i­cal story by sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy author Jeremiah Tolbert, “Work” blends the hard truths of a work­ing class life with the fan­tas­ti­cal of 1950s scifi movies.
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Work, With Occasional Molemen
Mel Kincaid’s an ordi­nary guy, unluck­ily born into an extra­or­di­nary fam­ily of low-​​class crim­i­nals and thieves. The family’s patri­arch, known only as the Old Man, rules his fam­ily as dic­ta­tor. Everyone pays a cut of their checks to the fam­ily, or the Old Man sends Aunt Livia’s boys to collect.

Mel pulls late shifts for the tire plant, but the rumor around Topeka is that the com­pany is mov­ing the plant. Mel and his saucer-​​crazed cousin Chet work odd jobs, hop­ing to stay afloat and keep the Old Man off their backs. It’s not a great life, but it’s his, mostly free and clear.

That is, until a chance encounter with a mole man derails Mel’s mostly sta­ble life and send­s him into direct con­flict with the Old Man. Along the way, Mel ducks his blood thirsty cousins, attempts to pawn jew­els dug up from the cen­ter of the earth, and strug­gles to learn why the enig­matic mole men have sud­denly taken such an inter­est in him.

A darkly satir­i­cal story by sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy author Jeremiah Tolbert, “Work” blends the hard truths of a work­ing class life with the fan­tas­ti­cal of 1950s scifi movies.
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Work, With Occasional Molemen

Work, With Occasional Molemen

by Jeremiah Tolbert
Work, With Occasional Molemen

Work, With Occasional Molemen

by Jeremiah Tolbert

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Overview

Mel Kincaid’s an ordi­nary guy, unluck­ily born into an extra­or­di­nary fam­ily of low-​​class crim­i­nals and thieves. The family’s patri­arch, known only as the Old Man, rules his fam­ily as dic­ta­tor. Everyone pays a cut of their checks to the fam­ily, or the Old Man sends Aunt Livia’s boys to collect.

Mel pulls late shifts for the tire plant, but the rumor around Topeka is that the com­pany is mov­ing the plant. Mel and his saucer-​​crazed cousin Chet work odd jobs, hop­ing to stay afloat and keep the Old Man off their backs. It’s not a great life, but it’s his, mostly free and clear.

That is, until a chance encounter with a mole man derails Mel’s mostly sta­ble life and send­s him into direct con­flict with the Old Man. Along the way, Mel ducks his blood thirsty cousins, attempts to pawn jew­els dug up from the cen­ter of the earth, and strug­gles to learn why the enig­matic mole men have sud­denly taken such an inter­est in him.

A darkly satir­i­cal story by sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy author Jeremiah Tolbert, “Work” blends the hard truths of a work­ing class life with the fan­tas­ti­cal of 1950s scifi movies.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014077699
Publisher: Clockpunk Studios
Publication date: 01/31/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 228 KB

About the Author

Jeremiah Tolbert lives high in the foothills of Northern Colorado. The majority of his time is spent building websites for authors and publishers as Clockpunk Studios. He spent the first 18 years of his life on the surface of Northeast Kansas. His fiction has previously appeared in Interzone, Polyphony, and a number of other anthologies, including most recently, Way of the Wizard edited by John Joseph Adams.
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