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    Eddie's Shorts: Volume 1
    Eddie's Shorts: Volume 1
    Eddie's Shorts: Volume 1
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    Eddie's Shorts: Volume 1

    By M. Edward McNally

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    Bedlam - An employee at a Southern "Treatment Facility" called Willow Farm meets the father he never knew. Questions of sanity abound. Who is sane, who is insane, and is there really much of a difference.

    7:00 C/M - Honestly, it is just about what's on TV tonight, what could be simpler?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM. Edward McNally
    Release dateJul 25, 2011
    ISBN9781465910103
    Eddie's Shorts: Volume 1
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    M. Edward McNally

    M. Edward McNally is a North Carolinian of Irish/Mexican extraction. Grew up mostly along I35 northbound (KS, IA, MN) and now resides in the scrub brush surrounding Phoenix, AZ, where the scorpions and the javelinas play. MA in English Lit from ISU and Russian/East European History from ASU, though both date from an earlier era when there was a lot of Grunge on the radio and Eddie wore entirely too much flannel, even in the summer. Deus impeditio esuritori nullus.

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      Eddie's Shorts - M. Edward McNally

      Eddie’s Shorts

      Volume I:

      Bedlam

      7:00 C/M

      By M. Edward McNally

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      Hello, all.

      Just a quick word of background about what this is you are looking at. I used to be a writer, or at least I thought I was going to be one. This was back in the 90’s, in Iowa, and I was in school for Lit and Creative Writing, doing some short stories, and having a few published here and there. Then I stopped. For about a decade. Seemed like a good idea at the time - something about getting a real life - it doesn’t really matter now as it was the wrong thing to do. Turns out I could stop myself from writing, but I never could stop being what I was.

      Anyway, I’m back now. I have a musket & magic fantasy series out which I am sure you can find if you found this, and if my writing makes you think it might be of interest. As to what this is, call ‘em fossils. Possibly the first two of many. Things lost in the sand for years, recently unearthed and dusted off a bit. Polished, too. But mainly just some markers of what was to be, or what I thought was to be, years ago. I have changed since then, it’s true. But I would not be here now without them.

      Thanks for reading.

      Ed

      Bedlam

      The Saturday after my dad first shows up, Walter makes his break for the woods, and vanishes.

      Walter's run sets the rest of the patient population off. I pull the alarm myself, and right away the bells generally get most of the less-medicated patients up and shouting or crying. After the doctors settle them down one way or another, the staff that was sent into the woods after Walter start trickling back to the Farm without nothing but shrugs. The doctors meet in the main administrative office behind the desk at the front doors, I guess to figure out what to do now. A group of us staff wait for them right there in the dark lobby, so the doctors start their talk in the office real quiet, but it gets loud enough for everybody to hear pretty quick.

      Homicidal? For the love of God, Josh, can you tell me just why the hell you had Walter in the general population? Could you explain that to me?

      Dr. Palumbo tears into Dr. Cester-pronounced-Chester for a good couple of minutes, his voice comes booming through the door and must be thundering in that little office. Dr. Cester's answers are quieter and higher pitched, and Dr. Palumbo keeps cutting him off anyway. In the lobby us staff sort of just glance around, but not at each other. Dr. Palumbo is usually a nice enough man if you stay on his good side, but he can come down very hard sometimes, like back in '89 when nurse June got killed by Sid, one of the Psychotics. There were all kinds of reporters all over the Farm for about two weeks, and Dr. Palumbo was real nice and serious for all the cameras but inside he

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