Taxman

By M. Matheson

You’ve heard of Batman, meet Kenneth Selznick an anti-hero auditor with the Internal Revenue Service. Kenneth better known, as TAXMAN, is a villain easily overlooked, but one who leaves a wake of destruction wherever he plies his special art of bringing misery to good common workaday people.

This story is intended as a parody and roast of the United States tax system and the Internal Revenue Service.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M. Matheson
• Release date: Apr 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311634993

M. Matheson

"I find that good fiction brims with more reality than many other things claiming to be the truth. A good story will strip bare our heart, reveal the things that only God can see and move our soul." -M. Matheson It is my sincere wish (leaving me only two) that you, the reader of these stories, will be moved in some way, be it small or large, and at the very least simply enjoy having read a good tale. ~~~~ Scroll down to my books and stories if you wish to skip the short long story of my existence ~~~~ M.(Mike) Matheson was born on an Army base in the middle of nowhere, Arizona. Dad was career military, and Mom stayed at home, the norm for the '50s. Mike's ultimate hero, his father, died suddenly and without warning. Without his stabilizing strength, the family became a severed sparking wire searching for ground. The ensuing dysfunction and chaos proved, in later years, to make for great storytelling. Mike has been blessed to take a wide bite out of life. From motorcycle outlaw to the pastor of a church and missionary evangelist. He has traveled a lot, seen a lot, and done many things; some he wished he'd never done, and others he can't wait to do again. Yet, each and every scrap of life has made a fantastic fabric from which to weave many grand tales. Mike has written dozens of short stories. Flatline is Mike's second novel No More Mister Nice Guy was his first.

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Taxman

M. Matheson

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Copyright 2014 Michael Matheson

ISBN: 9781311634993

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Kenneth Selznick at forty-one years of age still lived with his mother. He did not despise her. Oh no, that would be much too weak a word to describe his feelings for her. Loathe, now there was a word that more accurately portrayed Kenneth’s feelings for the woman who had given him life. And loathe her he did, with every cell of his being. Their hatred did not seem mutual though; at least it was not readily apparent, for she referred to him always as her Little Kenny.

If he’d any, friends that is, they would have been snickering behind their hands and mocking her behind his back, Little Kenny… making sure they stretched that name Kenny out until it snapped. At the Internal Revenue Service, where he worked, he had made more than one failed attempt to convert to a more grownup and friendly sounding Ken. That awkward request had been met with silent incredulous looks.

Once, he asked Mother if she would please call him Ken or Kenneth, but was met with such derisive replies and cackling laughs the words are not fit for this writer’s pen.

Malvina had made a good start on her own version of the American Dream, right up until the Sheriff’s Department showed up to seize their nice two-story home in the suburbs