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The Waldentown Express
The Town of Waldentown in Northern Alabama is in grave danger, from a psychotic killer and severe weather (flood and tornado). But the comic novel, THE WALDENTOWN EXPRESS, tells how four "fools" come to the town's rescue. The narrator of the novel is talkative Paul Pudley, assistant manager of Founders Drugs. This "fool" is a well-meaning but comical figure in the town, and he loves to talk about boxing and whatever pops into his mind. The second "fool" is an African American youth, Mr. Randall Brown, who travels about town carrying a steering wheel and usually running barefooted. Bill and Bob, the Waldentown drunks, are the third and fourth "fools" (though few in town can tell them apart). They and Mr. Randall Brown claim they have seen the escaped killer Jimbo Luster. As the story opens, Paul and his best friend, Luther Buffett, are trying to recover from the death of their buddy Willard Harper, who was shot to death because he was easily defeating Jimbo Luster in a "parking lot" boxing match. The town faces challenges when struck by a flood and then a tornado, but the biggest uproar occurs when Paul Pudley wants to keep his house from being torn down by having Luther's outfit move the house to a special place on Wiggle Worm Road. (75,800 words)
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The Waldentown Express
The Town of Waldentown in Northern Alabama is in grave danger, from a psychotic killer and severe weather (flood and tornado). But the comic novel, THE WALDENTOWN EXPRESS, tells how four "fools" come to the town's rescue. The narrator of the novel is talkative Paul Pudley, assistant manager of Founders Drugs. This "fool" is a well-meaning but comical figure in the town, and he loves to talk about boxing and whatever pops into his mind. The second "fool" is an African American youth, Mr. Randall Brown, who travels about town carrying a steering wheel and usually running barefooted. Bill and Bob, the Waldentown drunks, are the third and fourth "fools" (though few in town can tell them apart). They and Mr. Randall Brown claim they have seen the escaped killer Jimbo Luster. As the story opens, Paul and his best friend, Luther Buffett, are trying to recover from the death of their buddy Willard Harper, who was shot to death because he was easily defeating Jimbo Luster in a "parking lot" boxing match. The town faces challenges when struck by a flood and then a tornado, but the biggest uproar occurs when Paul Pudley wants to keep his house from being torn down by having Luther's outfit move the house to a special place on Wiggle Worm Road. (75,800 words)
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The Waldentown Express

The Waldentown Express

by Howard Denson
The Waldentown Express

The Waldentown Express

by Howard Denson

Overview

The Town of Waldentown in Northern Alabama is in grave danger, from a psychotic killer and severe weather (flood and tornado). But the comic novel, THE WALDENTOWN EXPRESS, tells how four "fools" come to the town's rescue. The narrator of the novel is talkative Paul Pudley, assistant manager of Founders Drugs. This "fool" is a well-meaning but comical figure in the town, and he loves to talk about boxing and whatever pops into his mind. The second "fool" is an African American youth, Mr. Randall Brown, who travels about town carrying a steering wheel and usually running barefooted. Bill and Bob, the Waldentown drunks, are the third and fourth "fools" (though few in town can tell them apart). They and Mr. Randall Brown claim they have seen the escaped killer Jimbo Luster. As the story opens, Paul and his best friend, Luther Buffett, are trying to recover from the death of their buddy Willard Harper, who was shot to death because he was easily defeating Jimbo Luster in a "parking lot" boxing match. The town faces challenges when struck by a flood and then a tornado, but the biggest uproar occurs when Paul Pudley wants to keep his house from being torn down by having Luther's outfit move the house to a special place on Wiggle Worm Road. (75,800 words)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781540872043
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 02/17/2018
Series: Tales about Lower Appalachia
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

HOWARD DENSON describes himself as a flunky journalist from the times he worked as reporter, copy editor, makeup editor, sports writer, photographer, and cartoonist for newspapers in Pensacola, Tallahassee, Bessemer, and Birmingham. He has been living in Jacksonville, Florida, since 1969. At what is now Florida State College at Jacksonville, he taught composition, literature, and creative writing, plus humanities courses in the ancient world and Middle Ages, the Renaissance to the modern world, art appreciation, American art and culture.
A native of Jasper, Alabama, he has also lived in Florence, Birmingham, and Mobile in Alabama; Vidalia in Georgia; Columbus and Hattiesburg in Mississippi, Norfolk in Virginia; and Pensacola, Marianna, Tallahassee, Key West, and Jacksonville in Florida.
He was closely involved in a town-and-gown writers' conference, the Florida First Coast Writers' Festival, where he helped run and judge contests in novels, short fiction, poetry, and plays. He attended similar conferences at Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College, the University of Florida, and especially at St. Petersburg's excellent Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference.
He has been an editor and/or contributor to The State Street Review, The Penchant, The International Journal of Elvisology and the Elvisian Era, The Write Stuff, The FCCFF Update, and Kassandra's Kitchen.
He and his smarter bride of forty-one years Michele Boyette currently have four-legged children: the meowers, Billy, Wally, Frieda, Amber, Mercutio, the still feral Peepers ("I don't trust you yet, but I do like your food, and you can brush me if you're gentle about it"); and the agéd barkers, Mr. Darcy and Daphne.
His website: http://howarddenson.webs.com
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