Waiting For A Friend: A Play

By Alfred C. Martino

Waiting For A Friend is a stage play about a fifty-something-year old man who is confronted by the unexpected visit of his best friend, who died tragically when they were kids in high school.

The man must come to terms with his lost youth and innocence, and the unstoppable passage of time, while a painful but heartfelt con

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alfred C. Martino
• Release date: Jan 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781593168551

Alfred C. Martino

Alfred C. Martino is the author of the award-winning novels: Perfected By Girls, Over The End Line, and Pinned; the stage play, Waiting For A Friend; and the short stories, "Quiet Desperation," "The Date," "A Day At The Beach," "Where Am I?" "Breathing In Rio," "A Cowboy's Way," "Mother, Interrupter," "The Boy And Girl: A Parable," "Grad School Daydreams," and "I Have Never Been Murdered." Alfred is also lyricist of the goth metal song, "Curse At The Sky."Alfred regularly makes presentations at public libraries and high/middle schools, in person or by Skype, to discuss his novels and short stories, as well as, his process for creating memorable characters and compelling storylines.A proud graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Alfred is a native of Short Hills, NJ. He is a longtime resident of Jersey City, NJ, where he is doggie dad to a beautiful Shepherd rescue, Gracie.

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WAITING FOR A FRIEND: A PLAY

Alfred C. Martino

WAITING FOR A FRIEND: A PLAY

Alfred C. Martino

Coles Street Publishing

Jersey City, New Jersey

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Copyright 2019 Alfred C. Martino

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Martino, Alfred C.

Waiting For A Friend: A Play / by Alfred C. Martino.

p. cm.

Summary: A fifty-year old man has a chance encounter with the

best friend from his youth.

[1. Growing old-Fiction. 2. Friendship-Fiction.

3. New Jersey-Fiction. 4. Stage play-Fiction.] I. Title.

[Fic]- dc22 2011934850

ISBN 978-1-59316-855-1

Text and Cover Designed by Coles Street Publishing

First edition

ACEGHFDB

Printed in the United States of America

This is a work of fiction. All the names, characters, places, organizations, and events portrayed in this book are the