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When John Vigilia, a writer and stunt pilot, travels to Europe to explore the truth behind a story hes been told about a young boy who flew as Lindberghs secret copilot on his trans-Atlantic flight, he finds himself in the middle of international intrigue. While investigating the story, John realizes he is being followed, and someone has even tried to kill him. Has he discovered the conspiracy of the century, or is it just an old mans hoax? After tracing Ariel Angelucci through Ireland, Rome, Como, and Munich, Vigilia finally finds him in Switzerland. Angelucci reveals that he did indeed fly with Lindbergh. Not sure if he believes the story, John takes the man for a flight in a biplane to discover if he really knows how to fly. The old man wants to perform some stunts, but suffers a heart attack at the top of a loop, jamming the controls and causing the aircraft to crash. When John Vigilia regains consciousness in a private clinic on an island in Lago Maggiore, he realizes he is being kept prisoner because of what he knows.

A National Guard corporal recently returned from deployment in the Middle East, and suffering from undiagnosed PTSD, has decided to murder the used car dealer, and former college football player, who he suspects raped his wife thirteen years ago, and who may be the father of his daughter. A homeless man was arrested for the rape back then, but was strangled in jail before his trial could be completed. The key evidence was a pair of red, white, and blue sneakers the man was found wearing-the same type of shoes worn that night by the football hero and the wife's boyfriend at the time, who had run away, but now has returned as a Catholic priest. At the same time a Hollywood film company is in town making an action movie called, "Battle of the Bridge." They plan to blow up the abandoned Wilbender Bridge, an old iron girder bridge that looks very much like a WW II span in Germany. The local National Guard unit is standing in for both the U. S. Army and the German Army in the movie.

A thoroughly engrossing collection of short stories, brilliantly interwoven into a dialog between a volunteer hospital visitor and an apparently friendless patient afflicted with AIDS. Reluctant at first, the patient opens up to his visitor and they begin telling each other their stories; witty, delightful, and sometimes violent and tragic. As the months pass we learn of the patient's life, and how he acquired the disease from which he is dying. The visitor also reveals his own past, and the two soon discover they are only different sides of the same coin. Or are they?

An AWOL soldier returns to the world after thirty-three years of hiding in his mother's attic. An immigrant plumber bribes a policeman with a loaf of bread. And a plastic garbage bag flies around the sky looking for a new beginning, in these three out of the ordinary tales of living in America.

When an unemployed actor answers an ad for a rent-fee apartment, he finds himself involved in a bizarre scheme to rig an election. He is run for congress as a spoiler. Not supposed to win, the third candidate begins to climb in the polls when TV stations start showing reruns of a short-lived soap opera he appeared in. On election night, his victory is announced, but he has mysteriously disappeared.

When his father dies, fading rock star John Foozler returns home, with his wife and son, to take care of his mother and run the family golf driving range. Finding life dull in Eastlake after the excitement of LA, John spends most of his time at the range hitting buckets of golf balls. He soon realizes that he has not lost the natural talent he had when, as a teen age phenom, he won the State Junior Golf Championship. After a few months John's mother dies, followed shortly by his wife. When his son leaves to join the Marine Corps, and with nothing to keep him in Eastlake, except a few now married old girlfriends, John decides to leave town and follow a dream his father had for him of becoming a professional golfer. Having sold the range to an old high school buddy who wants to build a shopping mall on what now is a valuable piece of land, John Foozler bundles all his possessions into his old car and heads south for tour qualifying school. He hopes to make the cut and be allowed to play on The Senior Tour. Unfortunately John's fondness for attractive older women slows his progress down the East Coast considerably. In South Carolina he meets a lonely female at a mini-golf course. He thinks that he has found true love, until he discovers that she is already married to a local politician believed to have ties to the mob. Always a jokester, a prank John plays at a military parade has him hunted, at the orders of the politician, as a suspected terrorist. But John evades the chase and manages to hide out, taken in by a woman who is an art teacher at the local college. This time John is sure it is true love. But he can't stay hidden forever as the woman's landlord is becoming suspicious of his presence.

The Art of Stephen Blickenstaff Volume 2 is a collection of drawings and paintings by Stephen Blickenstaff. Inspired by the 60's monster culture, Stephen's work is often described as a twisted blend of horror and comedy. His work has appeared on album covers, T-shirts, posters, and various promotional materials for bands such The Cramps, Los Straitjackets, Southern Culture On The Skids, The Fleshtones, They Might Be Giants, Dr. Demento, and many releases on Missing Fink Records. Along with fellow artist John Detrich, Stephen is the co-creator of the Funny Fiends monster sticker line.