White Picket Fences: Homeland Security in a small town, and other tales of The Great American Westerly Midwest

By Mike Palecek

Again we join Tommy, Robert S. Thompson and Nona The Waitress, in The Midwest, the Westerly Midwest, of America — as they follow The Swarm on their little bicycles zooming around town, and the activities of Moon Walking, the head librarian, as she fights the city fathers, who have demanded that everyone put up a fence in town, to keep everyone safe, from all sorts of terrible dangers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Palecek
• Release date: Jun 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301137817

Mike Palecek

Mike Palecek is a writer who lives in Saginaw, Minnesota, west of Duluth. He is a former federal prisoner for peace, was the Iowa Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, 5th District in the 2000 election, is a former award winning reporter, editor, publisher in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota. The small newspaper Mike & Ruth Palecek owned and operated in Byron, Minnesota won the MNA Newspaper of the Year Award in 1993. Mike and Ruth have two children and recently moved from Iowa to Minnesota. The Paleceks both work for group homes in the Cloquet area. Mike has written several other books. He is the co-host of The New American Dream Radio Show, along with Chuck Gregory, which has been broadcasting each Thursday at 6:30 pm. since February 2011. Here is a link to some past books: http://newamericandream.info/ Link to radio show. I am co-host: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-new-american-dream-radio-show Link to radio interviews I have done, concerning my books [left-hand side of page] : http://newamericandream.net/ Link to columns I wrote, published in Cold Type, while on book tour: http://coldtype.net/find.html [scroll down to "Mike Palecek, The American Dream Book Tour" Some other links, reviews, etc: http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2010/02/guests-of-nation-chapters-16-21.html http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/bigfoot-loves-balloons-a-review-of-mike-paleceks-camp-america/ http://johnnymoon.newamericandream.info/kevin-barrett-on-johnny-moon/ http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-terror-nation-by-mike/ http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/books-speak-english-by-mike-palecek.html http://madhattersreview.com/issue6/book_reviews.shtml#palecek http://dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/MickeyZ27.htm http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2007/3/13/195217/176 http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/bigfoot.html http://prairieprogressive.com/2006/05/12/book-review-terror-nation-2006/

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White Picket Fences

… Homeland Security in a small town, and other tales

of The Great American Westerly Midwest

by Mike Palecek

Copyright 2013 Mike Palecek

Original artwork copyright Monty Borror

Smashwords Edition

[Tommy Michael Moskowitz, a kid]

Well, I’ve got to hurry.

They’re building a new fence.

This one’s over behind Foos Foods.

It’s me, Tommy. How you doing?

I’m peddling as fast as I can. Somebody said there’s negroes on the construction crew.

And girls.

They’ve been building fences all summer.

They have to, it’s the law.

There goes The Swarm, ‘bout a million little kids, a whole bunch. Cars are backed up for three blocks. It’s worse than the train my mom says.

Hey, Cleo. Hey, Cleopatra.

Those two are brother and sister. One’s a cat. Cleopatra’s a dog. They’re always together. Maybe they don’t have anybody else.

I’m following The Swarm. They’re going over yards, fences, down alleys.

The fences most people have around their yards by now don’t stop The Swarm. It goes under, around, over, through anything — right through a house sometimes, back door to front, taking all the food inside, like locusts.

Moon Walking!

She doesn’t see me. I’m going too fast. Nobody can probably see me. I’m flyin’.

She’s the head librarian.

She’s arguing with Don the cop. He’s got a corner post under his arm.

Hey, Don!

[Robert S. Thompson, older man on bench on Main Street]

Well, it’s true.

Everyone is putting up fences.

Christopher, or Cristoph, as I believe he has asked his parents to refer to him, our high school student state legislator, was instrumental in getting a bill passed that mandates personal fences.

To go along with the national north and south border fences, the fence now being constructed around the state, and