“a sensitive guy”
by Horace P. Sternwall
edited by Dan Leo*
by Horace P. Sternwall
edited by Dan Leo*
illustrations by danny delacroix and eddie el greco
*Associate Professor of Speculative and Fantastic Literature, Assistant Checkers Club Coach, Olney Community College; editor of Love Is Like a Sock on the Jaw: The Love Poems of Horace P. Sternwall, Vol. 1, with an Afterword by W.H. Auden; Olney
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Meet Mack Treacher, international tough guy.
Interplanetary, intergalactic, time-traveling freebooting soldier of fortune.
Needless to say, an ex-Navy SEAL.
But nonetheless a sensitive guy.
Hey, he plays the blues violin.
He likes to play the deep plangent dark-blue blues, the sad Negro blues of the black night of lost souls everywhere, and he likes to play them late at night in his lonely shack up in the Sierras.
And a teenage daughter who hates his guts.
And an ex-pornstar ex-wife who double-crossed him by sleeping with what Mack thought was his best friend, Chad Chadwicke, a former Navy SEAL and now an elegant international hit man. And then his bitch wife had screwed over both Chad and Mack by taking off with a traveling evangelist by the name of the Right Reverend Dr. Moses X. Moses...
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