Attention All Word Nerds…

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• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

Trouble is coming!

Trouble is coming

Evil is coming!

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Monster's Dream: a chilling psychological crime novel. Jersey Murder Series - Book 2.

Monster’s Dream

A chilling psychological crime thriller with a shocking climax you won’t see coming.

Jersey Murder Series – Book 2

Atlantic City is on edge. A monster has been snatching boys from the city’s mean streets. He has baffled the police for a decade, and now he is taking his victims at will.

Raphael Riley is an unlikely foil for this heinous killer. Riley has spent his entire life avoiding trouble. A former vice cop, he has a safe and well-paid occupation as a house detective, arresting hookers in one of Atlantic City’s luxurious casinos. But a casual act of kindness will disrupt his stable life.

When Riley agrees to look into the case of a missing child for a friend, he finds himself on a collision course with the monster. People close to Riley turn up dead. And the monster leaves a gruesome personal message for him before threatening the two people dearest to him.

But, before Riley can unmask this monster and stop him, he must conquer his own inner demons – if he can.

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