The Neversink Chronicles

It was the fall of 1932 . . . Franklin Roosevelt was running for president. It was the year John Dillinger was killed in July and a pair of romanticized young outlaws named Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were robbing banks and leaving a trail of dead lawmen down in Texas and Oklahoma. And it was back in the 30s, before television and World War II refocused our attention, that every Saturday was poker night over in Eureka, in the back room of Rocky O’Mara’s SOCONY station . . .

The Neversink Chronicles is seventeen linked fictional stories that outline, define and cover the conflict between water needs, property rights and human rights in an enjoyable, entertaining and highly readable manner by illustrating the lives of ordinary citizens caught in the conflict as New York City takes their property in its relentless quest for water. It’s powerful, provocative, and impossible to put down.

April 2015

338 pages, softcover

ISBN: 9780983995203

$15.00

Book Reviews

“Man, what an impressive group of stories! Wide-ranging, from the Rhyolite Mountain of junked cars kept by Oliver Varley to poker players in Rocky O’Mara’s garage, from the riveting realism of ‘Just Another Day’ in Vietnam (like a Tim O’Brien story) to the SF alien green glob in ‘Stoners,’ the pages keep turning to more unique situations: the disastrous walls of water sweeping down in ‘Fictition,’ the Hogs trapped 850 ft below ground in ‘The Shanachie,’ the meteorite crashing through the ceiling of the Ten Eel Tavern in ‘Starfall on the Neversink’– all just amazingly creative tales.”

–Elroy Bode, Author, Creative Writing Instructor, El Paso, TX

“Couldn’t put it down, I had to see what happened next.”

–Mary Lynn, Librarian, Clarendon, TX

“Enjoyed the stories very much. Your command of dialect is amazing, the stories are just wonderful. So enjoyable.”

—Linda Zabucovick, Financial Services, Pueblo, CO

“I rarely read short stories, but I could not put this down. The writing is superb, beautiful. The characters are presented in a way that I felt I knew them. Really looking forward to more from this very talented writer.”

—Sylvia Masella, Therapist, Kihei, HI

“Just Another Day, gave me chills remembering my own Vietnam experience.”

—Skip Mooney, Financial Consultant, Manitou Springs, CO

“A gifted and natural-born storyteller with command of dialog and dialect. Congratulations!”–Clark Secrest, Author, Hells Bells, San Diego, CA”This is a book to read over and over. The people are real, the life is true and the author has to have been everywhere and met everyone to have captured all of these personalities so well. I’m waiting for more from him.”

—Mary Lelia, Austin, Texas