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    The Hoosegow Chronicles
    The Hoosegow Chronicles
    The Hoosegow Chronicles
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    The Hoosegow Chronicles

    By Will Kane, Jr

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    In the most notoriously corrupt jail in the state, five inept inmates, living under the viciously cruel thumb of correctional officer-Titus Weedarce, decide to break out. However, there is a problem. Escape by tunneling, scaling prison walls or conventional means is out of the question. The inmates, housed on the fifth floor, must escape the jail the way they got in, through the front door.

    The inmates, all held on inane charges, led by two societal misfits, lead three other oddball inmates into a plot of escape so uncanny that if even they were caught by the bungling administration, the jail personnel would have absolutely no idea of what the inmates are trying to achieve.

    This preposterously comical narrative is infested by a horde of idiotic characters: the unbelievably caustic correctional officer whose personal extracurricular activities leads him to a absurd cherry vodka induced Jacuzzi with an inmate; a tattoo artist’s obsession with religion that brings him into direct conflict with the mayor and the mayor’s twin judge brother who jails him; a wannabe pimp who spikes the drinks of potential geriatric johns with E.D. medication and this results into a en-masse dry humping of diapered nursing home women harmonica players; the ham-fisted 96 year old warden who is collecting two pensions from the jail and his exaggeratedly neurotic 79 year old wife who is chronically addicted to birth control pills and Carl “The Brainiac” Wheeler, in jail for skewering a sea-gull with an umbrella in a ridiculous beach fracas involving professional sun-tanners, dogs and ravenous members of weight watchers. These and other townsfolk of the City of Mosquito act in a sequenced tango of peculiar activities that lead to the perfect opportunity for escape!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWill Kane, Jr
    Release dateMar 29, 2011
    ISBN9781452448978
    The Hoosegow Chronicles
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    Will Kane, Jr

    Born in Youngstown, Ohio in the fifties and raised in a typical suburban neighborhood, just loaded with other kids, we used our imagination to entertain us rather than using external media to supply an imagination. In any given day we might all be astronauts in a cardboard spaceship, or in the army protecting each other in imaginary battles, or secret agents or great baseball players. That imagination fueled a sense of awe of the world around us, it created a sense of loyalty between us as we managed to escape harrowing scenarios, capture ruthless despots or save a damsel in distress. (Usually one of our many sisters) We all did this in an imaginary world, yet to us that world was real, complete with castles, imaginary foxholes or the secret agent’s gadget laboratory, good training for writing good fiction. Fortunately, after many years of toiling in the strict mind-numbing world of construction, I decided that it was time to reach back and grab that imagination that served me so well as a child. To again escape harrowing scenarios, or to capture vicious despots, maybe save a damsel or two. As a child, imagination was my most important asset. As a construction project manager the surveyor’s scope or a set of construction plans replaced imagination, sterile, rigid and cold items-not particularly useful in the world of the mind’s eye. Today, I have found that pen and paper are.

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