The Women

THE WOMEN

A NOVEL BY:

WILLIAM GRAYSON STALL

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In 1952, Earnest Hemingway published a rather long short story in Life Magazine titled “The Old Man and the Sea.” It was about an old Cuban fisherman who had not caught a fish in eighty-four days. But as time, patience and the luck of being at the right place, at the right time, with the right bait, the old Cuban caught this great and magnificent Marlin. The old man struggled to kill the fish and then to lash it to the side of his small boat. Before he could get the Marlin to shore, (since he was far out to sea)…tragedy struck when fierce creatures of the sea, the sharks… rose up and ate away the meat of the Marlin…leaving only the skeleton as a reminder of what might have been.

Of course, some would say that the old man was an idiot not to have salvaged large chunks of the meat, placing them securely in the bottom of the small fishing vessel before he started off in his triumphant journey home. According to others, he could have then cut the skeleton from the craft, leaving the remaining carcass in his wake for the predators. But these naysayers, those bit players at the edge of this human drama; those who read or watch and seldom experience; may have been quick to criticize this old man. Maybe he had dementia, perhaps he was exhausted with only enough energy to move the oar…or maybe he only wanted the vestige of the victory as a symbol for his death…as a remembrance of his life; the reminder to all that once he had been a great fisherman…a wonderful provider for his family.

Of course it could be that the sharks Hemingway had in mind were the women whom he had loved…each of them voracious in their attacks on him…all eager to get their piece of him and then to leave him with the memory, and the reminder of how much valued time he had spent with that fish…that shark…that women.

Hemingway was sixty-two when he killed himself over these issues. He had lived too long with the memories of the casualties…he could no longer swallow the thought of past and lost loves…lovers that he savored…memories that only lapped at the edge of his mind as the sea teases the shore. Hemingway’s depression led him to pick up a shotgun and blow away the storage facility, the place were his free will resided, that miraculous faculty which gave him the right to live or die…to begin a relationship or to end one.

THE WOMEN

WILLIAM GRAYSON STALL

THE WOMEN

Those who read or watch love

Played out by others;

Are seldom prepared emotionally

When real life drama

Presents them the opportunity

To be human.

WILLIAM GRAYSON STALL

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William Grayson Stall

THE WOMEN: Ever now and then a man comes into a woman’s life…he makes all the right moves;

has the flowers delivered on time; brings candy and wine for the parents; is patient and forthright in his praise of her right to

maintain her virginity until marriage. He seems preoccupied in placing her into the outstretched arms of other men and then pulling her back into his own. He brow beats her over these experiences, even though she is innocent of indiscretion. Though she is young and inexperienced, her body sends messages that something isn’t right…she should have listened to her messages.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Perhaps few authors are wholly original as far as their plots are concerned; indeed Shakespeare seems to have invented almost nothing, while Chaucer borrowed from both the living and the dead. And to come down to a somewhat different plane, the present writer is even more derivative, since for these books he has in generally kept doggedly to recorded actions, nourishing his fancy with log-books, dispatches, letters, memoirs and contemporary reports. But general appropriation, is not quite the same thing as outright plagiary, and in passing it must be confessed that several passages and descriptions have been taken straight from the text of authors listed herein, whose words did not seem capable of improvement.

I would like to give a very special “thanks” to J. Michael Mahoney, whose brilliant work; The Bearded Lady Disease; was such an inspiration and research gave me so much insight into this disease.

I also must give credit and recognition for the outstanding research and contribution of Louis Astarga whose work on the Mexican drug traffic is covered in depth here in this book.

I give spcial praise as well to Wikipedia. Com and Ask.com without whom I could never have covered this subject matter in the detail I believed it deserved.

THE WOMEN

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God had finished with the basic structure of humanity and was ready to get down to the perks. He called to Adam and Eve and they came running with anticipation and joy in their hearts.

“Ok my little ones.” God said to Adam and Eve

“I have made you in my image and likeness; I have given you all the essentials for life. I do have a couple of things left to share with you. Now who wants to be able to stand and pee on all the tree trunks in the Garden of Eden?”

Adam jumped up. “Father, please let it be me.”

“So be it.” God intoned.

God then turned to Eve. “Well let me see.” He murmured, looking at his at his master plan. “Looks like all I have left is multiple orgasms.” (Playboy circa1997)

All the characters in this novel are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, whether living or dead, is entirely coincidental…except those individuals listed as a part of the index are believed to have lived at some time in their lives.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 8

I I Never Knew The Friend Who Died. 20

II The Ramifications of Ovulation 25

III Max Comes to Covington 52

IV The Bachelor 62

V Ava Is Raped 74

VI A Man Is Raped 86

VII When Women Choose To Come Together 91

VIII She Traded Her Children 110

IX Quincy & Lee 131

X A Day at The Races 134

XI Laurie Fahey 138

XII Princess Kitty Cat Butterfly 159

XIII The Return of the Night Sweats 167

XIV Christmas at the State Mental Hospital 172

XV Watching Shirley Favre 203

XVI The Final Piece of the Puzzle 214

XVII The Mexican Drug Traffic 228

XVIII A Conversation with J. Michael Mahoney 278

XIX Afterword 292

XX Posthumous Murder Conviction 375

XXI About the Author

The Women

Welby Thomas Cox, Jr.

The Women

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