Messages

By Ed Merwede

Do you know how many people have notepads on their desks? From the one on the cover, which I drew by hand, to what I would imagine is thousands! For your eyes only, From the desk of, Greetings, Please respond, and so on. Someone, in their twisted mind, decides to steal one or two thats approximately two hundred notes! If they need more, just stop in any office and steal two more. Nobody cares in the office because theyre free, supplied by their printer of choice!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984543387

Ed Merwede

ED MERWEDE, also the author of “DONE!” started his career with Yale University Press. After eleven years as plant superintendent, he went on to manage three other printing companies before starting his own business with his wife, Ellen. That business, PrintAbility, operated for fourteen successful years, before the couple retired to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In the late 1990s, the author was diagnosed with syringomyelia, caused by a very severe crash while serving on a US Naval Air Station. Ed is listed as 100 percent disabled with the Veterans Affairs Office. His wife of thirty-five years, Ellen, died in November of 2014. He is now living in an assisted living facility on Cape Cod.

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Copyright © 2018 by Ed Merwede.

Library of Congress Control Number:      2018908902

ISBN:                  Hardcover                             978-1-9845-4340-0

                           Softcover                              978-1-9845-4339-4

                           eBook                                    978-1-9845-4338-7

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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Rev. date: 07/27/2018

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CONTENTS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

The notepad on the front cover was hand-lettered and padded by Ed Merwede.

The photography and reverse lettering was provided by Quality Photo Printing, Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with much appreciation by yours truly, Ed Merwede.

Do you know how many people have notepads on their desk?

From the one on the cover, which I hand drew, to what I would imagine is thousands!

For Your Eyes Only, From the desk of, Greetings, Please respond, and on and on.

Someone, in their twisted mind, decides to steal one or two. That’s approximately two hundred notes!

If they need more, they just stop by any office and steal two more. Nobody cares in the office because they’re free—supplied by their printer of choice!

CHAPTER ONE

George Mullen seemed like a normal, average working guy. He drove a privately owned delivery truck on Long Island. He never gave his boss any trouble, and all his neighbors thought he was likeable. But what they didn’t know was that George heard voices. When he was in his truck, he spoke out loud to his voices. Many times they told George what to do.

George went on about his business every day. The voices went on every day until one voice took over all the other voices and started to tell George to do things that he knew were bad. The voice told him that Jake Wade was the