The Pocket Watch

By Bill Flynn

Recently hired cash register salesman, Bill Malloy, is assigned to a territory in Vermont in 1977. He registers in a hotel at White River Juction where his father had stayed in 1950 before he was killed in the Korean War. Malloy was born after the death of his dad and has always wanted to know more about him. The amiable desk clerk at the Cooledge Hotel takes him to the cellar where he views his father’s registration signature. But, that’s not all. There’s a note in the registration book that the guest left his pocket watch behind when he checked out.The watch is recovered in ‘lost & found’ and given to Malloy. Later, when in his room after falling asleep, the pocket watch starts running backwards until it reaches July 19th 1950 the same day his father was a guest at the hotel. Malloy awakens and then the drama unfolds at the speed of light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Jul 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781684704934

Bill Flynn

At age eleven (1964), Bill Flynn began surfing. The Atlantic Ocean was only a hundred yards away from the Flynn family’s home in North Wildwood, New Jersey. As a child, teenager, and young adult, the beach and 2.8 miles long Boardwalk is where he worked and played. Surfing was, and still is, his favorite form of recreation. During the later 1960’s and throughout the 70’s, surfing the waves along the East Coast was a way of life for Bill Flynn. He worked hard and played hard. At the age of eighteen he hitch-hiked across the country and surfed for four weeks at Huntington Beach, California. The following year he toured the country on his 750cc BMW motorcycle. He made surfing stops at Huntington Beach, California and Melbourne Beach, Florida. In 1973 he fulfilled every surfer’s dream, he surfed the North Shore of Hawaii. For five weeks he communed with a group of surfers and rode the largest waves of his life (even till today).