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All this and more in talked to the girl in Vietnamese and gave her a key. The young woman looked at me rather shyly and motioned for me to follow. We went together down another hall and stopped at a bedroom door. She unlocked it and beckoned me to come in. -from "The Boy Soldier & The Prostitute", by Gary Lorentzen The rope gave a couple of jerks before Ole got back, and there was a bunch of Okinawan fishermen cheering him on. He increased his speed, which didn't seem possible. You would have thought he was trying out for the shell singles in the Olympics.-from "SGT Olsen Goes Fishing", by Hal CastleBa-da-boomp bang, Ba-da-boomp bang, Ba-da-boomp bang! went the tires of the jeep and trailer as we bounced over the dead men. "Haw haw" exclaimed the Sergeant as he stomped the brake peddle and skidded to a halt in a cloud of dust. -from "Close Calls" by Dave ParksThe males were pretty horny and would try to screw anything, each other, tent poles, legs, trees, everything but the female. Everybody was kind of bummed out about that, millions of goats in the world and we had to get the two queer ones.-from "Goat Stories", by Don Collins

True stories from John Klawitter, Hollywood writer-producer-director. Whether you're pitching some famous old witch doctor who owns a big animation production company, or sending a query letter to a 25-year-old cannibal prince who lucked into being the head of acquisitions at a giant publishing conglomerate, the stories of discovery and survival in TINSEL WILDERNESS can be a source of inspiration and encouragement. From the book-lined offices of Random House and Doubleday to the West Coast movie studios with their wide views of palm trees and the blue Pacific, the wilderness is a strange place for those not expecting the weird, the unpredictable and the rough-and-tumble. To you, storytelling is as important as life itself. But to the natives it's often little more than trinkets and beads they can exchange for furs and scraps of meat. The trick is, you don't want to be the meat. As the natives often say with a wise nod of the head, It's too late to moo when you're hamburger. You're a talented person, a creative writer, an artist in your own right. So as you take the first steps off the beaten path and into the tall grass toward the distant blue mountains, remember to stay alert, keep your weapons handy, and always expect the unexpected...you're in the TINSEL WILDERNESS.

The aliens are back - to convert earth into hell! The point is, with DEVILS, that scene in the doctor's office really did happen to me. The doc, who was a pretty good pal of mine, actually said I had a small implant near the joint of my left thumb. Showed it to me on an x-ray, said it was maybe an old piece of pencil lead; then he got interrupted by a phone call, came back and didn't know what I was talking about, denied there was any such thing, looked at me like I was crazy. Somebody - maybe Decartes or Spinoza - goes on and on questioning How do we know what we know is really real? You gotta walk away from that sort of thinking or it can drive you crazy. Forget about it. Don't worry about anybody else; you gotta blank yourself or you'll end up in the nuthouse.

When kids are drafted, maybe one out of four is okay with it. But all four will be changed forever. In The Dimbo Patrol by John Klawitter, Jack. Beale, a former UCLA student, enlisted to fight in the Vietnam war voluntarily. He soon meets unlikely heroes Charles Magnolia, Larky Larkspin, and Mad Denny Haller, and together they become The Dimbo Patrol. The four friends face the violence, death, and horrors of the Vietnam war together and soon discover the sickening reality that the media and politicians hide from the public. As the four young men battle to remain sane in a situation many will not survive, they each have their own demons and nightmares to overcome. But through it all, they form a friendship and bond that will never die.

Wanna be film producer Matt Havoc is a veteran struggling to recover from war injuries when he gets the opportunity of a lifetime - the chance to do a docudrama telling the life story of NFL superstar Ripper Brown. But some dangerous gangsters will do anything to stop that story from being told.