July 2nd is the 81st anniversary of the mysterious disappearance of the popular aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her second attempt to fly around the world at the equator--lost somewhere in the central Pacific. She was piloting her Lockheed model 10E Electra inbound for Howland Island, 2,333 nautical miles distant from her departure at Lae, New Guinea.
In this conglomeration of 20th Century novellas, short stories, and flash fiction quips, assembled in no particular order, are heroes, blackguards, lovers, gallants, adulterers, wayfarers, fanatics, mercenaries, sportsmen, pioneers, and murderers-just the regular assemblage of ordinary folks doing extraordinary things. Some of the characters are real (usually disguised in a nom de plume), some are fiction, some of the stories are based on real incidents, and some are figments of my imagination. Nonetheless, take none seriously-even though your empathy may be intense.
