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"Prompts Too - another collection of stories" is the sequel to "Prompts - a collection of stories" and continues with a mix of fiction from creative writing prompts and war stories based on personalities, events, and locations. A retired, decorated combat cavalry trooper, Tank Gunner is a top-notch storyteller. We recognize real people in his down-to-earth style. Tank's mastery of descriptive dialogue is the hallmark of his creative brilliance. Graphic...
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Bobby Ripples, a thief, ex-con, and pretend preacher, meets a treasured mentor who brings him to an East Texas town for a fresh beginning.
Ordained for $2, Reverend Robert Ripples skims the deposits of his Church of Heavenly Inspiration and Perpetual Spirit (CHIPS). His lust for fame and fortune parallels Miss Claudette Coleman's burning desire to work at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. Is Fuzzy Weaver, ex-cellmate and boastful liar, self-indulging...
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Cookie Johnson begins his odyssey along paths few travel to arrive at a place in life never dreamed, expected, or predicted. J J. "Cookie" Johnson, a fry cook at Sugar Babe's, quits his job, pays a recruiter ten dollars to be a cook in the Army, and ends up as an infantry rifleman in Vietnam. He finds combat exhilarating and being responsible for others fulfilling. Injured by a grenade explosion and evacuated to a field hospital, J.J. meets and...
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In 1943, 370,000 German prisoners of war arrived in America. Thousands were penned at Camp Maxey, Texas where MP Sergeant Twig Chestnutt was preparing to ship over for the invasion of Normandy. When President Roosevelt decreed that POWs work as laborers to replace American boys gone off to war, Twig is assigned as the guard for POWs Kraus, Edwin, and Wilhelm who live, work, and find love in Palomino. Appointed Constable by the Palomino town council,...
10) The Reedemer
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With a mysterious power he does not understand, Dr. Greffen "Pearly" Gates, a former, well-respected Dallas physician, is released from prison on the eve of WWII. Following exoneration for the murder of two patients and reinstatement of his medical license, he comes to live in a small rural town and work in the only Texas hospital that would hire him. He is bewildered that many believe he has the ability to save lives beyond the traditional practice...
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Tank Gunner is a pseudonym for a combat cavalry soldier decorated for gallantry. In response to classroom creative writing prompts, this collection of 60 stories includes ingenious and clever approaches to share non-fiction war stories as fiction. Following discovery of four combat daily operational reports he wrote 50 years ago, he knew more of the story than the three or four formal military sentences written for each daily entry over a four-month...
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Witness Ron's amazing story of how he turned a few thousand dollars into millions- only to lose it all. Find out how God rescued Ron and put him back on the path to living abundantly by revealing a powerful biblical secret, hidden in plain sight and encoded into the DNA of every living creature on earth. (You'll be surprised at how simple it is!) In June 2014, Ron netted a gain of 1,124% in only seventeen days.
The Moses of Wall Street reveals his...
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Porky Baycann is the companion to Tank Gunner's immensely popular WWII historical fiction novel, Palomino. Many of the characters Tank's readers came to love & hate in Palomino - Twig Chestnutt with his German POWs, Teresa & Tina Chestnutt, Mayor Shipp, Major Monroe, Preacher Adams, Miss Ruby, Waldo, Pinky & Patsy, & Eliot Thurgood - appear in the young life of Porky during the summer of 1943.
Gene Autry invites Porky to eat a hamburger in Jeeps Cafe...
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Rigors of Revenge, the tale of a retired soldier, harboring revenge for 50 years, returning to Vietnam to find and kill a murderous enemy. Following a hit and run, Colonel Grady Allen is in a VA hospital PTSD ward where reoccurring nightmares blossom of the murder of Sergeant Tommy Franklin by NVA Captain Vo. Now, 50 years after Tommy's death, Allen has the opportunity to return to Vietnam to find and kill Vo,
15) Luck by Design
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How do smart people create dumb luck?
In Luck by Design: The Science and Serendipity of a Well-Lived Life, Adam Tank unveils the hidden potential of life's seemingly random circumstances. This masterful blend of science and storytelling illuminates the power of embracing serendipity in every facet of our lives - from relationships and education to careers and travel.
Luck By Design invites readers on a transformative journey to discover how...
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Learn to automate your busywork and focus on what really matters
In Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuffentrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Jotform Aytekin Tank delivers a can't-miss blueprint to help you make the most of your most precious asset: time. You'll explore what's possible when you offload repetitive tasks, why automation has democratized innovation, and how you can use cheap―or even completely...