About the Book
In the city of Seattle, Washington, RODNEY and MAGGIE SMYTHE receive a message on RODNEY's telephone answering machine from MAGGIE's son DANNY by a former marriage, saying "Hey, mom, tell Rod I am coming home, see ya' soon.". DANNY and RODNEY, step-son and step-father, have had a strained relationship since RODNEY and MAGGIE were married. The message sends RODNEY and MAGGIE into hours of arguments, wild goose chases, unanswered questions and dead end situations. They call airlines and Amtrak to find him and his family on their passenger lists. Unable to find them they decide to drive to the Amtrak Station to meet a train they think may be the one they are on, only to come up empty handed. While they are off on this wild goose chase, DANNY, ANGELIQUE and DANNY JUNIOR arrive at RODNEY and MAGGIE's home, park their car in the garage and fall into bed exhausted. Hours later RODNEY and MAGGIE return home exhausted and saddened having not found them at the train station. On his way to bed RODNEY stumbles over the luggage left by DANNY in the hallway. They hear a baby crying and decide to bring the "hungry" DANNY JUNIOR into the study for a visit. Minutes later ANGELIQUE screams from the bedroom.
About the Author: Résumé Thomas M. Kelly Mr. Kelly was born and raised in Iowa. "Once a Marine, always a Marine." ('57 - '60). He is a graduate of Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY. He attended two years at the University of California, Davis and is a graduate of Lincoln Law School, Sacramento, California. JAC Publishing, Burlington, MA, has published eight of his plays: "Mixville" (Jubal 'Tom Mix' McCabe is a happy-go-lucky, wanna-be cowboy movie star. As a youngster he was a "little Tom Mix", cleaning out a nest of imaginary outlaws in the family backyard in typical Tom Mix fashion. Those were the days of the popular dream: to grow up to be like Tom Mix.), "Extreme Unction", "The Timekeeper", "Zen and the Art of Making Par", "The Butterfly Within" (A heartwarming story of culture clash as an old Jewish gentleman and a young Korean girl discover the meaning of the rest of their lives atop a Lower East Side tenement), "Fana!", and "smile, and smile, and be a villain." (A frightening glimpse at the life of a victim of Borderline Personality Disorder), "Ba-Bang!" (An analytic political cartoon caricature of "Dubya"). "The (Mis)Adventures of Charlie & Jay": a montage of four short children's plays, including "Stop Snoring, Jay! I'm Dreaming of Christmas!", "Wake Up, Jay! It's Christmas!", "This is Not our Backyard, Charlie!" and "You're in Trouble Now, Charlie!". "Ole' Gimlet Eye" (now an e-book) is a biographical play about Major Smedley Darlington, U.S.M.C. General Butler was a man who defied the powers that were, to wage a war against war in the days before World War II: "War is a racket! I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.", "Ba-Bang!, The Musical", "Stones", and "How To Improve Your Life in Four Easy Moves", "Yuyustu" (part of the 'Mixville' series), "It's'a comin' inta' bein' ", co-written by Paul Hauck, "Pádraig's Aibhistear", and "Sacred Ground" (part of the 'Mixville' series) are more recent full-length plays. E-books available in the Apple ibookstore, Sony Reader, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Stanza, Aldiko, Palm Pilot, PalmOS, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile Pocket PC/Smartphone, desktop Windows, Macintosh and others: "Frankie and Johnny Were Schweethawts", "Liza", "Ole' Gimlet Eye", "Pawns are but Poor Men", "Save yer pennies, kids." (part of the 'Mixville' series), "Hey Mom, tell Rod...", "On the Line", with more on the way.
