Cagalupo Redux

By Joe Novara

Nick Finazzo, a roving freelance writer, spots Carol walking a Lake Michigan beach a long way and a lifetime from their early years in Detroit's Eastside-their adolescent attraction, friends in common and now disparate life styles-her Lake Michigan mansion, his live-in van. Can they start over?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
• Release date: Aug 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781619506626

Joe Novara

A former corporate trainer and writing instructor, Joe Novara and his wife live in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Writings include novels, short stories, a memoir and various poems, anthologies and articles. Nine of his young adult novels and stories are accessible through http://www.storyshares.org/users/view. He maintains a web/blog: Writing for Homeschooled Boys on his Wordpress blog that includes his publication list. Another blog, Free Floating Stories+ posts a short story every week. A novel, Come Saturday...Come Sunday and a novella, I'm Here, are available through Amazon by searching for Joe Novara.

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Contents

Copyright Page

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

About the Author

Cagalupo Redux

by

Joe Novara

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Copyright © March 25, 2021, Joe Novara

Cover Art Copyright © 2021, Joe Novara

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ISBN: 978-1-61950-662-6

Published in the United States of America

First eBook Edition: May 10, 2021

Nick

I wonder if that’s a woman coming toward me. Or is she going away? Coming toward me. If it is a woman, about now she’s got to be getting concerned—alone on the beach, at the far end of Wilderness State Park, a man perhaps, gradually getting closer. I’m probably ruining her meditative stroll into the golden glitter edging over Lake Michigan.

Ha! If she only knew how old I am, how little threat I pose. Hell, if she’s a young woman, maybe camping with her lover, she could easily outrun me back to safety. No need for her to imagine horrible things. She’d be the kind of interns