Grandparents Day - Send me a Cigar and a Bottle of Jack

by Bill Russo



September 13 is National Grandparents Day

Send me a good five cent cigar..................

Or send me  a bottle of Jack...............................

 Or send me a  ticket to a Mexican Cantina.......

Or send me Helen Mirren.........

But don't send me flowers!!!!!!   I am way too young to be this old!

Ghostly Gardener Forces People to Abandon Their Flower Boats

Copyright photo by Bill Russo

by Bill Russo





This is a 'Joseph Boat'.

Once there were thousands of these flower boats on

 Cape Cod. 


 Now there are perhaps only one or two left. Is it because a ghostly gardener in a 'peruke' comes once a year on the anniversary of his death, to pick the flowers and scare the townspeple senseless? Find out in Chapter Two of the Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle; in a tale called 'The Joseph Boats, or the Reverend Metcalfe gets Two Wishes'. It's just 99 cents on Amazon and is number 60 in its sales niche.

The Grim Weepers attack Goody Hallett (from the Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle)

Excerpt from Chapter 3

 of the Creature From the

 Bridgewater Triangle:

The Grim Weepers:

They had not far to go nor long to look, for the golden haired lady always made her way to the town dock, where she stood and watched the horizon for the return of dashing Sam Bellamy, the salvage man.

On they marched, at a steady pace. The leaders of the column of more than fifty pairs of armed, rock throwers, stopped as they set their moccasins on the first boards of the pier. A tiny feminine figure was balanced precariously at the very edge of the last boards.

A man stood between the grim stone tossers and the young woman.

“Please, my friends. Do not do this. She is betrothed. She is not a sinner. Sam Bellamy will marry her.” The pleadings came from the gentle, good hearted Innkeeper, Ernest Hallett – Maria’ s father. “Brothers and sisters, I implore you to wait one month more, until Sam……………….”

Mr. Hallett’s words were cut off, when a boy of not more than eleven years ran up to him and with all his youthful might hurled a fist sized rock directly into the father’s nose.

Twenty more of the citizens advanced on Mr. Hallett and likewise jetted their holy stones at him. Bleeding from a hundred painful welts, Mr. Hallett slipped into the ocean and drowned.

Many of the citizens wept, for they had known and loved Hallett. But their duty was clear. The grim weepers advanced next on the tiny form of Maria Hallett.

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Read The Creature for 99 cents on Amazon Kindle.  https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Bridgewater-Triangle-Other-England-ebook/dp/B00OEZK8IQ

The paperback is also available from Amazon for $12.50

Taryn Plumb: The (other) infamous triangle

Taryn Plumb: The (other) infamous triangle: ‘ Bridgewater Triangle’ film cites litany of mysteries By Taryn Plumb|GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MAY 04, 2014 Courtesy of the filmmakers ...

Read the Owners Manual for Jewelry - You Have Nothing to Lose But the Dirt!

Now Available on Amazon Kindle for just 99 cents 

The Lowdown on Jewelry Cleanup
 (The Owner's Manual for fine Jewelry) 

Written by Bill Russo after a decade of cleaning jewelry in fairs, flea markets, and in BJs Wholesale Clubs on the Northeast Coast.

"You will learn 'what to do' to keep your precious gems looking bright and new," says Bill Russo, "but more importantly, this manual shows you what "Not To Do!"

Read this book!  You have nothing to lose but the dirt! 

Banned on Kindle, Read my new Book on Tradebit

After successfully publishing over six
books on Amazon Kindle, I have
had a bit of a scuffle with both the robots and the humans who are running the platform.

I compiled, edited, updated, and annotated 10 stories from the early 1900s.  The tales were all published before 1923.  Virtually page written before that year is in the public domain - meaning a person can use it for any commercial purpose without crediting any person or publisher and without paying any fees.

I submitted the book, which also contains one of my short stories, and it was dragged through a week long inquiry by both human auditors and robot readers.

They ultimately challenged a fascinating 1922 story by Franz Kafka, called the Hunger Artist - about a sideshow performer whose skill was being able to exist in a cage for 30 days without food!  I had proof that the story was public domain, but Amazon refused it.  So I removed it and changed the title from the Ten Best Stories to the Nine Best Stories.  I resubmitted all my information on the authors whose work I had updated.  

Another week dragged by and once again Amazon's readers and robots challenged the public domain status of my work.  They did this despite the fact that they themselves had versions of the works for sale on the Amazon platform.  

Since a soon to be 72 year old man, existing mostly on a small social security repayment, cannot fight a billion dollar corporation, I withdrew my book from submission and instead published it on Tradebit where you can buy it for just $2.99 ( www.tradebit.com ) (The Nine Best short Stories of the 1900s)

Among the stories I collected and freshened up, are two noteworthy yarns by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  One is the first draft of The Great Gatsby.  The other is the original story that inspired the move, The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt.  It's a funny, bittersweet accounting of a man born old who lives for 72 years, going backwards in age from tottery to an actual tot and finally to a mute infant.  

There are also two Sherlock Holmes yarns, one of which is rare and almost never included in Baker Street collections.  It was written for the Queen on England in a book about the size of a postage stamp.  In fact it was written for the library of the Queen's dollhouse!

The Dollhouse by Katherine Mansfield is another fascinating story in the collection, as is her story titled, "The Fly".  

My contribution to the collection is a narrative that takes the reader back to a time when gambling was both illegal and a sin!  That was before the government realized there was a huge profit to be made, so wageing became legal and not sinful.  It also became less romantic and perhaps more crooked than when it was run by people like the hero of my story - the Colonel.  A short, heavyset man, the Colonel  was one of the last of a dying breed - the neighborhood bookmaker.  He was liked and respected by everyone....with the exception of one renegade police officer who vowed to put the hard working honest bookie in jail.  

A quick reminder that the rest of my work is available on Kindle.  Type in "The Creature from the Bridgewater Triangle" and you will be able to get to my author's page where you can sample everything I've done.  

If you read any of my work and like it - five star reviews are deeply appreciated.  

thanks,  Bill

The Bridgewater Triangle is Coming to National Television in August

The Bridgewater Triangle 
Documentary makes its nationally
televised debut on Saturday, August 15 at ten p.m. on Discovery's Destination America
channel.

The news was announced recently by the film's co-directors, Aaron
Cadieux and Manny Famolare .  

The movie opened around the Halloween season in  2013 in limited release and played to capacity audiences at selected theaters, colleges and film festivals.  Along the way the Cadieux-Famolare team has picked up about a half dozen awards, and many five star reviews. 

The project was the first in depth treatment of a 200 square mile swamp area of Southeastern Massachusetts that has been home to an astounding number of strange and unusual events. 

UFOs twice the size of a 707 were spotted by large numbers of people, including two television reporters.  A local man and his dog met a talking, three foot tall Puckwudgie; ghosts and odd creatures abound in the area.  A well respected police sergeant saw a real life incarnation of the mythical 'Thunder Bird'.  

Many people who visit the area don't see a ghost, a snake as large as a stove pipe, or phantom hitchhikers - but many of them say that they feel something.  Something odd, eerie, and hard to describe.  

The documentary (and other 'triangle merchandise')  may be purchased on Blu Ray and DVD from the Bridgewater Triangle Documentary website.

For 99 cents you can purchase Bill Russo's account of his meeting with the talkative puckwudgie.  He tells that story and others (some real, some not) in this popular book,   "The Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle".  It's in the Amazon Kindle Store.  Click the link to get to Bill's author page - B00OEZK8IQ