Musings and Amusings
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Within MUSINGS AND AMUSINGS author W.E. Brower Jr. weaves worlds where the lines of reality and insanity blur in the middle. A doctor new to his residency at a psychiatric clinic has his judgment clouded by his first client whose delusions of grandeur echo with elements of reality in “Mental Vacation.” Meanwhile a lab tech demonstrates how many ethics violations she’s willing to break in order to achieve her end goals in “Lab Animals.” A recluse living in the mountains is forced to face their fears when an unscheduled delivery arrives in “The Package.” A single father wakes up to discover his life is a music video with strange lyrics on a “Lazy Day.” The true definition of friendship is demonstrated in the reflective essay that chronicles “An Event of Titanic Proportion.”
W.E. Brower Jr.
Novelist W.E. Brower Jr. uses his love of history and mythology to weave new worlds for readers and historians alike. Since 2004 he’s written 32 books alternating between Fantasy and Science Fiction plus History including the multi panel book Titanic: The Legacy Remains which shed light on why the public is obsessed with the shipwreck. For his 37 years of research on the Titanic Brower worked with a panel of historians as a historical consultant to the film The Last Signals an independent film profiling the Titanic’s radio operator. In 2013 he was appointed the 1st U.S. Ambassador to the Titanic Heritage Trust of Coventry United Kingdom. Between book signing tours and consulting projects, Brower became a mentor to a group of university students at the Institute of Higher Learning in Tunisia, where over Skype; he taught them how to develop effective realistic characters in writing. Brower is currently enrolled in Full Sail University where he is finally pursuing his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
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Musings and Amusings - W.E. Brower Jr.
By W. E. Brower Jr.
Copyright 2017
First Smashwords Edition
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This book could not have been written without the support of my wife Cynthia Levers-Brower, who has grown accustomed to having dinner at 4am because of my binge writing over 24 years.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Information
Dedication
Table of Contents
Mental Vacation
Lab Animals
The Package
Lazy Day
Author’s Note Regarding The Next Story
An Event of Titanic Proportion
About the Author
Other Books
MENTAL VACATION
It seems that every assisted living facility built from the fifties all share the same cookie cutter structure, a white box with blue trim accents in the middle of nowhere. My low test scores blew my hopes of a modern facility once they went on my records leaving me instead with a relic from the dark ages.
I approached the main doors and after punching in my time- card, began to walk down the faded white halls. I’ve come to the conclusion that residency here is modern slang for indentured servitude as I nod at smiling patients feigning the thrill of seeing one another. I turned the corner towards the backroom where even now the sounds of Dvorak blared over the silly song on Sesame Street which was on in the