Patrick Conley

• Apr-2010
• / Action Adventure
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Abraham White, a promising businessman and community leader, walks into the bank that two decades earlier had awarded him a college scholarship. There he shoots five people and then himself. Why? Jack Madwyrd, his former business partner, wants to kn...

• Dec-2010
• / Action Adventure
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Distraught that a former colleague was abusing young boys, the clandestine cleric and successful businessman Jack Madwyrd seeks help from his friend and favorite researcher, Patrick Conley. While Jack devotes his time to working with Raul and creatin...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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On a cold, rainy December day, two teams are battling it out for the championship of the NCAA Division III football crown, but this game differs from all others in all times. The same coach is simultaneously coaching both teams. The dilemma for the c...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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Nichols Benben heads the hip, new, up and coming Verdant Enterprises with a staff of Ivy Leaguer, exemplifying diversity in race and sexual identity. All would seem well, and it is until Michael Riley lands a job with Verdant because he mistakenly ch...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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Terry Moore, a well-liked retired teacher and contractor, dies suddenly and quite unexpectedly at a construction site. At first, his death is viewed as an accident, but then a host of suspicions surface as greed, racism, and jealousy come into play. ...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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Besieged by a bureaucratic system and harried by administrators, Jack Biernan and his family at first cope but then go on the offensive. With the assistance of a few close friends, Jack, his wife Gwen and son Sean challenge the Catch-22 world of Amer...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Public Schools, Private Scandals describes a world in which Race to the Top refers to the mad scramble for power, prestige, and dominance in a public school doing all it can to cover up academic and moral deficiencies with expert public relations. No...

• Nov-2014
• / Science Fiction
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SS 2044 describes a world not of physical deprivation but of spiritual. This dystopia takes place a generation in the future, where work is no longer a necessity except for elite members of the Agency who strive to provide total satisfaction by exert...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Tales of Youth and Age chronicles the evolution of an American generation from childhood to old age. Thirteen different short stories narrate the lives of multiple protagonists as they experience the naïve optimism of youth and the 1950s, the disill...

• Oct-2016
• / Action Adventure
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Three generations of Americans are swept up in the vortex of our history: famine, immigration, child labor, Jim Crow, railroad, baseball, the World’s Fair, romance and marriage, split allegiances, the Depression, religious yearnings and religiou...

• Aug-2017
• / Fantasy
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Imagine a world in which work is rare, pot and booze flow freely, and no one seems to have any real concerns -- at least no one other than a few elites who run the New Way. Such a world may appear to have few drawbacks. After all, robots have relieve...

• Dec-2020
• / General Fiction
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The two novellas in this collection both describe a world gone mad with a frenzied rush for profit and promotion, a world in which bureaucracy seemingly trumps all other considerations. The first novella, “So, This Is It,” finds its protagonist u...

• May-2021
• / General Fiction
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SYNOPSIS OF A CONVOCATION OF FIVE What is the value of an ordinary guy’s life and who assesses that value? As Tom Albright approaches the end of his days on earth, five individuals meet to evaluate his life. They begin with hearing and commenting ...

• Jan-2022
• / General Fiction
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Adam Albright had spent his entire life winning, or so he thought. He excelled in school, won recognition as an athlete, and basked in the sunshine of popularity, especially among women. He had succeeded as a lawyer and even more so as a lobbyist. Al...

• Aug-2022
• / General Fiction
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The two tales portray some of the problems facing many American families: bipolar bosses, unemployment, cancer, the seemingly unending hustle for money, and adolescent children coping with the meaning of the puzzling adult world. In ‘67 Ford Mustan...

• Sep-2023
• / General Fiction
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Pete and Mary find their humdrum life interrupted dramatically by a spirit from the past. All on the surface appears banal and excruciatingly normal, but this ordinary couple must grapple with questions that otherwise they would have conveniently and...

• Nov-2024
• / General Fiction
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This collection of short stories describes a variety of characters all facing transitions in their lives. Some succeed, some fail, some are left questioning their new status. However, all of these fictitious characters lie on the cusp of it all, peer...