Tattle Tales

By Jim Hazlett

The sole purpose of this book (other than to have preoccupied the author for many hours which otherwise would surely have been spent in mischievous meanderings) is to provide the reader a good, no, an excellent, opportunity and reason to LAUGH!!!Contents begin with family musings always good for a hoot and howl. Once past the funny kid stuff, we get a lot more sophisticated as we move into funny adult stuff. (I will leave it to your keen sense of humor to determine who wins out in this regard.) This book contains a dozen or so short stories (which tend to get shorter along as the book progresses, moving in the same direction as your attention span). Of course, there are a few major exceptions to this guiding principle, mostly applied when the stories (for some reason or other) tend to get a bit longer. Some key stories are true; the rest would like to be. One of the challenges of the book is to figure out which is which. When you do, be sure to contact me. (I would like to know, too.)Next, you will find yourself stumbling over some even shorter tales. These definitely are filler material in nearly all other books, but here they play a key role, primarily of mostly filling the otherwise blank pages between the longer stories. But, then, if the sky is blue - and you are, too - there is a solid chance your sky could break into smiles and grins and outright belly laughs (mostly on the true stuff, of which there is plenty to share all around). I experienced some success in filling the white spaces with a theme of an ice cream party, which is referenced and alluded to throughout. The fact is, there is little hard evidence about all of these goings on, mainly for two reasons. One, ice cream has a soft side to it, which comes out the longer you look at it at room temperature. Two, ice cream at room temperature, when it is at its best, is when it most often gets consumed. This latter action is my best guess as to what has happened in here. Still, there is a trail and a tale of ice cream all around.There is not much else to say. If you don't like a few rhymes (for kids and big guys both); a soccer story or three (5 to be exact, but all different from one another and not much into playing soccer per se); unimagined ways of recruiting students to a school; eating breakfast (in at least 2 stories); and just a lot of other funny stuff, then let me recommend that you read the obituary column instead. It will be closer to where your spirit of life is anyway.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1518652999
• ISBN13: 9781518652998
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.6" x 8.5"