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    The Ageless of Aquarius
    Cutlass Wonders
    Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict
    Ebook series3 titles

    A Measure of Poe & Three Quarters Series

    By Steven Mooney

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    About this series

    Randal Poe’s banishment by his dysfunctional family propels the history buff and nascent journalist toward a hapless criminal act that unleashes sibling rivalry, animal rights activism, corporate greed, unethical behavior, class conflict, blind patriotism, and grudges bent on revenge from a host of characters in the capital, coastal plain, and the Appalachians of North Carolina.
    Through gun store owner and Civil War reenactor Elmer Butkins, Randal sells a storied heirloom presumed to be rightfully his to collector L.D. McKee and a mock-up of the blade to McKee’s half-brother, a museum curator. Columnist Tarleton Ramseur takes an interest and mentors Randal as a cub reporter. A battle reenactment interview leads to Randal’s involvement with the rag-tag militia defenders of the new Republic of 1/10 of Peedee County, recently seceded from the union, and with a hog farm on the brink of insolvency that seeks asylum for refugee swine.
    In addition to his vengeful father, Randal draws these actors toward a denouement in dire pandemonium in Cutlass Wonders, a comic novel about coming of age the hard way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteven Mooney
    Release dateJun 9, 2020
    The Ageless of Aquarius
    Cutlass Wonders
    Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict

    Titles in the series (3)

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      Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict
      Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict

      Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict

      Steven Mooney
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      In the sound bite era, morpheme addiction flies below the radar of speech pathology. Enter Phono-morph specialist Randal Poe, dedicated to treating the tics of the itty-bitty utterance until he meets his match in Claudia Roget who claims to be a trans-gendered lexicologist who for four-hundred years has hunted her uncle, Dughall, who she insists will destroy the world by stealing lexemes from the Time continuum. Claudia may be crazy, but love too is a form of madness, and Randal cannot abide without her. Together they search for the uncle in the Boroughs of Manhattan and through the Whorls of Time, or are these sequences the subconscious rationale for eerie events of time and place that spiral toward a vortex of history redefined? Then, before his eyes, Claudia vanishes. Her disappearance is orchestrated by Renaissance scholar Norse Charlton, onetime lover of Randal’s patient Dr. Wallis Fordham when she was a man. Foregoing the doctor-patient relationship, Randal and Wallis search for Claudia, but when the hunters become the hunted and things are not what they seem, the only thing that can save them is their love of language in Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict.

      In the sound bite era, morpheme addiction flies below the radar of speech pathology. Enter Phono-morph specialist Randal Poe, dedicated to treating the tics of the itty-bitty utterance until he meets his match in Claudia Roget who claims to be a trans-gendered lexicologist who for four-hundred years has hunted her uncle, Dughall, who she insists will destroy the world by stealing lexemes from the Time continuum. Claudia may be crazy, but love too is a form of madness, and Randal cannot abide without her. Together they search for the uncle in the Boroughs of Manhattan and through the Whorls of Time, or are these sequences the subconscious rationale for eerie events of time and place that spiral toward a vortex of history redefined? Then, before his eyes, Claudia vanishes. Her disappearance is orchestrated by Renaissance scholar Norse Charlton, onetime lover of Randal’s patient Dr. Wallis Fordham when she was a man. Foregoing the doctor-patient relationship, Randal and Wallis search for Claudia, but when the hunters become the hunted and things are not what they seem, the only thing that can save them is their love of language in Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict.

    • The Ageless of Aquarius
      The Ageless of Aquarius

      The Ageless of Aquarius

      Steven Mooney
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      At a writers’ awards ceremony an impromptu interview by Randal Poe exposes a reclusive national celebrity, although for Randal fame is diminished by love at first sight: poet Button Springfield hails from the same Appalachian crossroads where Delray Mabler has lived since his exit from the limelight. But in lusting after Button, Randal loses his notes and Mabler is found out. She offers him refuge on commune land owned by her parents who also rent a ridge top to a cult of stargazers whose agenda proposes a lunar rendezvous. Into this picture steps Baptist minister, August Tarbush, and FBI agent, Jack Riggs, whose cover as a real estate developer has aligned the two against the commune, but cult leader Argon Kirkcops is also under suspicion; one among those free spirits is the 60s radical bomber and cold case fugitive, Al Bannister. To reinvent oneself takes daring-do, perseverance, or outright lunacy, but it can unravel in a heartbeat. In the antics of The Ageless of Aquarius, few are who they claim to be and allegiance, and love too, is fickle.

      At a writers’ awards ceremony an impromptu interview by Randal Poe exposes a reclusive national celebrity, although for Randal fame is diminished by love at first sight: poet Button Springfield hails from the same Appalachian crossroads where Delray Mabler has lived since his exit from the limelight. But in lusting after Button, Randal loses his notes and Mabler is found out. She offers him refuge on commune land owned by her parents who also rent a ridge top to a cult of stargazers whose agenda proposes a lunar rendezvous. Into this picture steps Baptist minister, August Tarbush, and FBI agent, Jack Riggs, whose cover as a real estate developer has aligned the two against the commune, but cult leader Argon Kirkcops is also under suspicion; one among those free spirits is the 60s radical bomber and cold case fugitive, Al Bannister. To reinvent oneself takes daring-do, perseverance, or outright lunacy, but it can unravel in a heartbeat. In the antics of The Ageless of Aquarius, few are who they claim to be and allegiance, and love too, is fickle.

    • Cutlass Wonders
      Cutlass Wonders

      Cutlass Wonders

      Steven Mooney
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      Randal Poe’s banishment by his dysfunctional family propels the history buff and nascent journalist toward a hapless criminal act that unleashes sibling rivalry, animal rights activism, corporate greed, unethical behavior, class conflict, blind patriotism, and grudges bent on revenge from a host of characters in the capital, coastal plain, and the Appalachians of North Carolina. Through gun store owner and Civil War reenactor Elmer Butkins, Randal sells a storied heirloom presumed to be rightfully his to collector L.D. McKee and a mock-up of the blade to McKee’s half-brother, a museum curator. Columnist Tarleton Ramseur takes an interest and mentors Randal as a cub reporter. A battle reenactment interview leads to Randal’s involvement with the rag-tag militia defenders of the new Republic of 1/10 of Peedee County, recently seceded from the union, and with a hog farm on the brink of insolvency that seeks asylum for refugee swine. In addition to his vengeful father, Randal draws these actors toward a denouement in dire pandemonium in Cutlass Wonders, a comic novel about coming of age the hard way.

      Randal Poe’s banishment by his dysfunctional family propels the history buff and nascent journalist toward a hapless criminal act that unleashes sibling rivalry, animal rights activism, corporate greed, unethical behavior, class conflict, blind patriotism, and grudges bent on revenge from a host of characters in the capital, coastal plain, and the Appalachians of North Carolina. Through gun store owner and Civil War reenactor Elmer Butkins, Randal sells a storied heirloom presumed to be rightfully his to collector L.D. McKee and a mock-up of the blade to McKee’s half-brother, a museum curator. Columnist Tarleton Ramseur takes an interest and mentors Randal as a cub reporter. A battle reenactment interview leads to Randal’s involvement with the rag-tag militia defenders of the new Republic of 1/10 of Peedee County, recently seceded from the union, and with a hog farm on the brink of insolvency that seeks asylum for refugee swine. In addition to his vengeful father, Randal draws these actors toward a denouement in dire pandemonium in Cutlass Wonders, a comic novel about coming of age the hard way.

    Author

    Steven Mooney

    After graduating high school, other than a brief stint at Naropa Institute to study poetry with luminaries of the Age, Steven Mooney was for twenty years an unskilled laborer at construction sites and factories, and as custodian, garbageman, groundskeeper, seasonal firefighter, taxi/truck driver, earning just enough money for the books he devoured across the breadth of English and American literature. Tiring at forty of the shanty life he ventured to college and earned a Bachelor of Art in English, University of North Carolina, and a Master’s in Education from East Carolina University where he first encountered ESL. For the next twenty years he taught English in Central America, The Far East, and the Middle East, then retired to the Pacific Northwest, USA, where he lives with his wife. He is the author of In Cellophane of Time, Poems 1973-1987; Kottke Ouevre Skookum, 6 and 12-string ears, Vignettes 1970-2019; and the comic literary novels: Cutlass Wonders, The Ageless of Aquarius, and Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict published under the series title: A Measure of Poe & Three Quarters.

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