Thomas M Mcdade: 35 books

Thirty-one poems about a "colorful" housepainter I worked with one summer when I was young.

Chicago lawyer falls for exotic dancer and she changes his dull life. Many of her colleagues add remarkable vigor to this tale.

Twelve pieces of sudden or flash fiction covering many facets of the human condition.

A short story concerning two housing project kids, an outsider, fighting and the game of golf.

Tom Sellers, a sailor off the USS Mullinnix has been exchanging letters with Francy, a young woman he met through a USO pen pal program. They agree to get together when his ship visits Newport, RI. Her cousin picks up Tom up at the bus station in Providence delivers to him to her house in Lincoln. Her crafty younger brother entertains and an unexpected adventure follows.

This short story deals with metal, legal and illegal, light and heavy, as well as two men who collect it. Shuffles gathers the former, Jake deals the latter. A Bob Dylan lyric shows up at the forging of the partnership and accompanies the trip. Mysterious mother and daughter beggars complete the cast. Sit back, pop an Iron City brew.

Twenty-Four poems about Thoroughbred wagering ups and downs and some of the colorful and smitten individuals involved.

A mysterious woman and her nursing home friends take a liking to a college boy working as a janitor.

Fifty poems steeped the human predicament, displaying in diverse ways, its demons, saviors and whimsies. Stop by for a coffee at Andy's Diner or Laura's Luncheonette. A drink at the Canopy Club, taste Olympia's fromage. Fill your lungs with smoke in Sarajevo. Visit the Sleeping Giant...

A chance encounter in a man-made pond drain between an injured teen and the girl of his dreams.

A man having a bite to eat at a diner before leaving for the racetrack is remembered by waitress serving him and not fondly.

Forty poems of youth, loss, remembering and observations perhaps befitting this quote.The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.-- William Butler Yeats

An elderly man on the lam relives a thoroughbred racetrack day in New Hampshire. A mysterious auto trip follows. His curious return is a puzzle for all.

This story's action is propelled by a displaced circus barker's love of expensive clothing. His obsession impacts not only his existence but the lives of his business partners, also refugees from the big top, one an acrobat the other a roustabout.