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The Dream Mechanic is a Southern Gothic journey back to the Me Decade of the 1970s when credit card debt was tax deductible and businesses that lost money were profitable. After graduating from the University of Urban Failures (UUF), Wilbur Dobbs takes a job as a dream mechanic setting up waterbeds at Wetbedders, a small business and tax write-off for Dave and Margo Hamilton, so that he can pay back his National Defense Student Loan from UUF and the Record Club of America for three hundred copies of In The Court of The Crimson King, his favorite album. Wilbur is fed, clothed, liquored, stoned, entertained, loved, hated, and abused by a variety of people from the Me Decade as he enters the inner sanctums of their bedrooms for several hours that make indelible impressions on his overactive mind. The reader is in for a real treat as Dobbs meets weird and wonderful characters from up and down the social ladder reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole's, A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, and James Purdy's, MALCOLM. One of them is a thirty million dollar soda pop heiress married to a personal injury and divorce lawyer who added his name to all the stock she inherited. They live in a three story house but she is restricted to a remodeling account that her husband controls. She is immediately smitten with Dobbs who lives in a second floor apartment with low ceilings above an elderly couple with a mynah bird named Sam that knows the whereabouts of some stolen loot. Wilbur inherits Sam and tries to smoke the information about the loot out of him by getting him stoned. It doesn't work until one night there is a knock at the door and the heiress appears. They end up making love in his pile of dirty laundry but not before discovering the whereabouts of the loot.

Archipelago of Myself is a collection of whimsical and eclectic poems by Thomas Fillion, author of The Dream Mechanic, Giuseppe's Award, When The Moon Is In The Seventh House, New England Book of the Dead, and The Sky's The Limit. The topics and titles include a kaleidoscope of modern life: Slow Dancing In Hell, Hunger Games In Texas, I want To Be a Kardashian, Twerking In The New Year, Orchestra Seats At Armageddon, Chapel of Continuing Basketball Re-Education Camp, Dreaming In Swahili, Get Your Sorry Ass Up And Go To Work, With Leda Down At The Pond, The Check Is In The Mail, Chasing The White Bronco, Cakewalk To Baghdad, The Flip Side of Gertrude Stein, The Corporation For Brotherly Hoola Hoops And Loopholes, Let Me Unpack This For You, St. George of the Hedge Clippers, Adagio For Pumpkins, Dancing Without the Stars, Mom's Spaghetti, God Shed His Junk Mail On Me, Getting To Know Your Deep-Fried Turkey, Pornography of Silence, Hail Mary Full of Pigskin, Crow Doing Standup, Random Acts of Windex, Our Lady of the Shopping Cart, and Elvis Impersonator to name a few of the 115 poems in the book that are sure to delight.

In New England Book of the Dead, Robert Fortier escorts his legally blind, eighty-eight year old father, Roland, from Florida to Vermont to see his father's sister, Alma, before she dies in the hospital. It's the longest time he has spent with his father since growing up and traveling the world. He has an aversion to family events and planned on spending Thanksgiving with his wife in Pensacola when the call from the doctor came that Alma had a few days to live. When they arrive in Burlington, Robert calls Alma's house where she and another brother, Edmund, lived for forty years together. Neither one ever married and that always puzzled Robert. He thought it had something to do with the death of their younger brother, Garfield, who perished along with three others in a horrific automobile accident shortly after he returned from the Korean War almost sixty years ago. Edmund answered the phone and didn't remember they were coming. Robert knew then that this was going to be a memorable trip especially when he walked into Alma's bedroom to put his luggage there and saw one small portrait picture taped to her mirror staring at him. It was his picture that he sent her many years ago. She put it there for a reason. She was waiting for him to help them through this ordeal. There was no way now that he could refuse.

Thomas Fillion's collection of 121 eclectic poems from 2015-2018 covers a range of topics and absurdities of modern life: spam, rise of the alt-right, deportation, NRA child's play, nuclear days off, Hurricane Irma, the glacier that went back for more rocks, Triple X-Rated farming in Texas, digging and cutting turf in Ireland, Cajun country boil, skinny dipping in Sh*t Creek, intelligence briefing and Florida sunsets, hamster wheel of suffering, Nebuchadnezzar and zeroes, racism, the N-word, black history month noisemakers, collisions with butterflies, piano mover and loneliness, test anxiety, crop-dusting the First Amendment, chocolate chip champ, food babies, throwing Hail Marys at Muslims, singing in the choir at Auschwitz, self driving poem, serial killers named Humphrey, colonoscopies, lap dance for truth and beauty, learning from weeds, mailing a box of tumbleweed, and hugging your oligarch daily. These are some of the topics and subjects in this new collection that are sure to entertain, enlighten, anger, and amuse.