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When the Mob pays for your college education, they expect to be paid back. Not with money but with service. That is how young Tom Delaney becomes an accountant for the Baltimore Mob. His specialty is phony tax returns and money laundering. While Delaney tries to find options for getting out from under the oppressive thumb of the Baltimore Mob, his old flame, Misty Vail, appears, disrupts his domestic life, and brings him a new client that will draw him into the Watergate Scandal. When his Mob boss, Louis “Spam” Spamanado, puts him to work laundering money for the IRA, his job becomes ...

“Lessons from the Screenplay” creator Michael Tucker and the LFTS team do deeper dives into the storytelling of individual movies and chat with the creatives behind those films.

It was a beautiful, mythical city sparkling with riches. But many years ago, a huge wave washed away the entire city. Is it possible the legend of Atlantis is true?

The is a novel about a boy growing up with a closeted gay father. It details the good times and the bad times of living with a parent who never wanted to live up to who and what he was.

Debbie, a young woman, lives a quiet, solitary life with her little dog as her best friend. Her peace is disrupted when a rowdy neighbor arrives along with his big dog. A nasty canine encounter gets them off to a bad start. The new neighbor really wants to make amends. He’s seriously interested in something more than a neighborly relationship. When his overtures fall flat he puts together a scheme to get Debbie into his townhouse, and into a situation where she will have to submit to his desires. But when his rape attempt goes horribly wrong, Debbie is left with an even bigger problem. ...

This fictional short story that you are about to read is based, in part, on real events that occurred in the 1950’s. Two college students venture to Cuba during the early part of Fidel Castro’s revolution. In their hands is a Letter of Introduction for Ernest Hemingway, from their English professor, who happened to be a Hemingway biographer. They have hopes of meeting the iconic author and interviewing him for their college newspaper. The boys have rough encounters with Hemingway’s wife, Mary, and his housekeeper, Renee. But those become minor bumps in the road compared to what ...

Irving Kingman is a strange type of evangelist, his body a canvas of tattoos, crisscrossing the country on his Harley Davidson. He seeks out men whose faces show the etchings of trouble, fear, and doubt. He sees their vulnerabilities and plays them as if finely tuning a carburetor until they succumb to his words. With an earthy tongue, he gives them the promise of eternal salvation. Acceptance is easy, and Kingman will take drastic steps to prevent any backsliding. And they never backslide. Can Irving Kingman be stopped? Is there a greater evil riding the highways that could end the ...

Three gifted musicians rise up out of tragic childhoods that included verbal, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by their fathers. Digger, Chip, and Aria put their pasts behind them, blend their talents together, and achieve stardom on the stage in the songs they write and perform. Digger is verbally and physically abused by his father, the owner of a mortuary who forces his son to play hymns at services to soothe mourners as repayment for his piano lessons. Chip’s father is sent to jail for murdering his mother, and Chip must abandon his beloved dog and home to live in a trailer in ...

A short collections of poems by author, Michael J. Tucker. The collection represents his musing over various periods of time. They begin with tributes of love and to lost loved ones. Later poems lead to depths of the author's imagination. The collection contains "The Coyote's Den" which was previously published in the anthology "Filtered Through Time.

Short fiction is full of small pleasures. See if you agree as you listen to this short story by Michael Lee Tucker.

The Wicked South will explore the dark history of the Murdaugh legal dynasty, as well as the fascinating criminal cases on both sides of the law.

Katie Savage is a girl with a gun, a woman not to be taken lightly. Julian Marks is a smart, sophisticated stockbroker. He’s also an adrenalin junkie. There really is nothing he won’t do to get his juices flowing, including armed robbery. He seeks out small businesses just before closing time, when their cash registers are full and they are at their most vulnerable. He doesn’t do it for the cash; no he makes more in an hour at his day job than any of the petty robberies yield. He does it for the thrill! Everything in Julian Marks’ life is coming up roses, until one fateful day he ...

When Sydney Allen entered seventh grade he faced the dilemma of writing the annual school essay of what he did during his summer vacation. He couldn’t write about what actually happened. It was too dangerous to tell the truth! So instead, he fabricated a totally believable tale of a memorable sightseeing trip to the Pacific Northwest. What really happened started with a stolen car; then an arrest; a roadside accident involving an encounter with a lecherous tow truck driver; and a disastrous whitewater rafting trip that would forever change his life and the lives of this family. Download ...

George, a small general contractor, is struggling to keep his business alive. When a local homebuilder contacts him looking for some copper pipes, George knows just where he can get them, and get a little bit of revenge at the same time. Harris’s Hardware has just what he needs, and old man Harris has been overcharging him for years, and refuses to give George a contractor’s discount, even though he’s a licensed contractor. Stealing that copper wouldn’t really be stealing—more like a rebate for being a loyal customer over the years. George scopes the layout, and puts together a ...

Million Dollar Secrets, hosted by Michael Tucker, is a weekly show specifically designed for online entrepreneurs who want to start and scale their business to 6-7 figures and beyond. Michael shares his knowledge and even brings on some of the top entrepreneurs from across the nation to share their stories on some of the "secrets" that got them to where they are today. Be ready to learn, laugh, and maybe even cry as we help you dive into some of the top-secrets of the 1%.

Following the death of her husband, Hilda Mahaney Tucker begins a lifelong battle with mental illness. Her son. only fifteen-years-old when he first witnesses the onset of his mother's paranoia, tells the story of her rollercoaster life of isolation, electroshock therapy and psychopharmacology, laced with periods of peace and tranquility.

The tranquil relationship of two lovers is disrupted when a letter arrives from the daughter of one of them. Passion, fear, and jealously boil in a stew that could fracture their love for each other. One pleads for the letter to be destroyed without reading the contents. “Nothing good can come of it.” But how can a parent ignore a daughter’s letter? Is it asking too much? Could a letter from a little girl actually destroy the love the couple have for each other? Download this suspenseful story of love, lust, and passion, today.

If you are a fan of Stephen King, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, Jennifer McMahon, then you will love this collection of short stories from Michael J. Tucker. A step into the supernatural. Four novellas and five short stories that stretch the boundaries of reality. Two homicide detectives investigate extremely brutal serial murders of homeless men. A sound awakens a man in the middle of the night that begins a haunting by the ghost of his former fiancée. Conflicted by a forbidden love, an adolescent girl, learns witchcraft and inadvertently brings a curse to everyone she knows. When a failing ...

It’s the summer of 1964 in Ocean City and the region seethes in racial unrest. The Vietnam War escalates. The Beatles lead the British Invasion in the takeover of rock-and-roll. It is the Age of Aquarius, and against this backdrop, Tom Delaney loses his college scholarship just a year before graduation. With no money or family to fall back on, he hopes to find work at a thriving beachfront to avoid the draft and salvage his dreams. Delaney soon encounters new friends who vie for his talents and will dramatically alter his future. Wendy Morrison, a beautiful surfer girl, want his heart, ...