It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City - Paperback

by Eugene C. Flinn (Author)

It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City by Eugene C. Flinn is a collection of 21 short stories that include an actress whose strict mother does not know she is going on stage naked, a kid who has words with Santa Claus, an elderly woman who advises the manager of the New York Giants, a mobster who buys a fashionable magazine to impress his girl friends, school children who steal Montcalm's head, a nun who gives the finger to a rude truck driver, a wedding guest who finds himself at the "Reject Table," horse players who unknowingly stumble on two genuine Monet paintings and try to sell them in a Hoboken alley, a gun fight in a funeral home, and more.

Author Biography

Eugene C. Flinn has been writing fiction and non-fiction for well over half a century. Some of the stories in One More for the Road come from his imagination and some from his experiences as a soldier in France during World War II, his years as a newspaper reporter and University professor, and most of all from his 36 happy years of marriage to his wife, Patricia, also a writer and author of The Listerine Lunatic and Other Strange Stories. Besides the 40 tales in this volume Flinn is the author of well over a hundred short stories published in literary magazines in most of the 50 states, Canada, Ireland, and Australia. He recently published It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City. Over the years he also wrote for Life, Good Housekeeping, Facts on File, Simon and Schuster, and was a Broadway first-night critic for six years. He currently teaches Creative Writing and The Short Story at New Jersey City University.