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    If Mama Ain't Happy
    If Mama Ain't Happy
    If Mama Ain't Happy
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    If Mama Ain't Happy

    By Eric Stringer

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    Johnny Marsden sets out for home after a few hours' fishing. His grandfather becomes concerned and goes out looking for him. But what happens with Johnny and his grandfather is far from anything you might expect.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStoneThread Publishing
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781370035939
    If Mama Ain't Happy
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    Eric Stringer

    Eric Stringer (the borderline psychotic persona of Harvey Stanbrough) is a miserably failed newspaper reporter whose father was obsessed with one soft spot after another and whose mother didn’t love him enough to care that she didn’t love him enough. She swapped him to a camel jocky she met along the border in southern California for a hit off his crack pipe and a swing on his banana hammock. Eric was born in poverty and clawed his way up to debauchery and tearing the wings off young maidens. Once he got out of prison for failing to vote multiple times in an election (he lived in Chicago at the time, and the law’s the law) he began to write stories about all the strange and unusual things he saw. Some of them were actually there. See more of Eric's work at HarveyStanbrough.com.

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