The Importance of Being Ernest

James Joyce Jones, a literature professor, is up for tenure but he needs to find an original Hemingway manuscript to secure his job. Journeying to Key West in search of a possible story, Jones meets The Waddler, a literary fixer, who says that he can get the good doctor Hadley's Valise, a missing treasure trove of Hemingway short story manuscripts which were lost in the Paris Wife's "daze" while boarding a train. Yes, in the case Paris is not a movable feast but rather a movable snack. Originally published in "Florida Keys Magazine."