A fictionalized account of a true series of events concerning the humorous tragedies and few successes of a young man growing up with substance abuse issues. Ricky shares his mind's inner workings with sheer, thoroughly honest clarity. As well as the numerous, often funny, sometimes sad adventures his substance abuse frequently delivers. It is a detailed accounting of love, college, career, and modern struggles heard from the subject's mouth. This novel will have you thanking yourself you chose it to read.

This novel details one man's second year journal in a Texas prison. Number two in the series, the hardships of life spent in a six-foot by eight-foot cell without one's family are brought to bear.

Convicted of real estate theft in 2005, I was remanded to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to serve a 20 year sentence. Immediately, I was shocked at the sour living standards presented to inmates and decided to author a journal noting my experiences and the efforts to rehabilitate offenders in the TDCJ institutional division's prison system.

Ricky's Confession is a fictionalized account of a true tale concerning the humorous tragedies and few successes of a young man growing up with substance abuse issues. Ricky shares his mind's inner workings with sheer, thoroughly honest clarity. As well as the numerous, often funny, sometimes sad, adventures his substance abuse frequently delivers. It is a detailed accounting of love, career, and modern struggles shared directly from the horse's mouth. And will have you thinking this is the one book everyone should read.

A fascinating, creative story featuring Pepito, a small boy whose only goal is to play baseball, amidst his family's misery and hardships due to living on a communist Caribbean island without the luxury of a free economy. It is a touching, moving story for young and old alike. Your heart will enjoy it "It is a beautiful story..., but so sad." Blanca Hidalgo, Miami Florida

This is a tale of a small immigrant boy who grows up on the tough streets of a metropolitan American city and his teenage years of early robberies and mischief growing into young adulthood, girfriends, sex, and falling in and out of love.

At fifty-one years old, I thought I'd my old drinking and coking habits one more try. Hell, I was okay now I was taking my adderall fairly regularly. Perhaps selling a pill here or there to be powerful and popular. And selling real estate too Cheating a good many clients of the sweat from their brows. That is, until I cheated the wrong client, and my boozing and cocaine addiction climbed like wild ivy. So much so I forgot how to steal and did a lot of things wrong - well, like a coked-up drunk you might say, which I was. There-in all my troubles started to multiply. I found out slowly at first, that Texas is not the place you want to be caught stealing old folks property. And so here I am knocking out day for day a 20 year sentence. "You've got to be kidding " Oh, I wish I was. I sure do wish I was...

The novel details many of one man's experiences incarcerated in a Texas prison. Including his familial issues and the difficulties he faces having little money for commissary expenses and petty luxuries, as well as his family's hardships out in the free world. A good read for those who would like to examine a living history of where one addict's substance abusing lifestyle ultimately leads him.

Carlos & The Everglades Race is a story about a young Cuban man who falls in love with a white American college student woman and she with him. Together they embark on a monster truck racing adventure in order to earn prize money to fund their elopment.

HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW? A fictionalized account of a true series of events concerning the humorous tragedies and few successes of a young man growing up with substance abuse issues. Ricky shares his mind's inner workings with sheer, thoroughly honest clarity. As well as the numerous, often funny, sometimes sad adventures his substance abuse frequently delivers. It is a detailed accounting of college love, career, and modern struggles shared directly from the victim's mouth. And will have you happy this is one book you chose to read.

YEAR TWO IN A TEXAS PRISON Cowboy, a meth freak, says he fought his wife's insulter fairly at first. That is, until the devious culprit (to hear him describe the man), started to get the best of him. In simpler terms, the man was apparently beating the shit out of Cowboy. In any event, Cowboy says he knows how to take a beating as well as any man (and he is thoroughly full of shit I may add. For if he could take a beating fairly like any man he would have done so). Prison administrations like to say that what convicts do best is lie. I can tell you, that is absolute bullshit - the truth is they can't lie worth a shit All convicts have ever offered me in the way of tales is kaleidoscopic dreams of their preferences as opposed to their realities. Realities which can also be readily stated as cheap-assed psychopathic lies intended to project airs of arrogance and authority and non-truths. In any case, this is what really happened. The insulter or whatever, perhaps Cowboy's whoring wife deserved it (I've seen her pictures - she looks like a real slut). So, maybe the fight shouldn't have happened in the first place. But, it did And cowboy couldn't stand to see his wife watch him get the shit beat out of him by the gladiator who was hammering her the last time he did a prison stretch so he did what comes naturally to guys like he and I, he picked up a tire iron and clobbered the guy half a dozen times. Cowboy is now in prison with me doing bible studies, I may add it is an honorable change of pace. And the once gladiating Adonis is in a wheelchair for life, cross-eyed from one of the bonks his cranium suffered at the hands of the crazy Cowboy, and babbling about his pre-puberty lifestyle and the extent of his love for Popeye's girl, whose name I think is Olive Oil. Perhaps I will never understand much about what makes us humans tick. Here we are, Cowboy and I, studying the word of God like two cherubim's in a balcony choir. What we are at the moment is all that is meaningful when it comes to describing life. Certainly all he is and all I am consists of our respective physical conditions in time - and that time is now - the present. Whether we would like to count misdeeds or good deeds is immaterial. Whatever they may have been, good or bad, they are now unmistakably forever gone and no longer exist in time. And so, it stands to reason that mankind is worthy of emotional and tangible forgiveness. That is to say, with few exceptions, man should not be incarcerated for the entirety of his earthly time. I have given a big part of my earthly life to a great deal of acts unknown to those which prefer hearing of noteworthy works for the good of man. Today I find myself dedicated to shedding the substance abuse incurred mental illnesses I so often sought. The part I find the strangest is that I cannot take the credit for my change of heart. So much I am sure that left to my personal choices and own devices I would rather glory in the mischief of evil over the tranquility of peaceful innocence.

A passion for life, freedom, & baseball. Pepito's Cuba & the Avocado Baseballs personifies the absence of the free enterprise way of life and the problems suffered living under the shroud of strict government rule and a fixed economy. Featuring nostalgic, fictionalized games with Yankee greats, such as Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, Whitey Ford and others, the story teaches young and old alike the value of free enterprise in a very remarkable way. It is a fascinating, creative tale highlighted by Pepito, a small boy whose only goal is to play baseball amidst his family's misery living on a communist Caribbean island. A fascinating, creative story featuring Pepito, a small boy whose only goal is to play baseball, amidst his family's misery and hardships due to living on a communist Caribbean island without the luxury of a free economy.