Three On A Match: Eleven Stories

Three on a Match is a collection of tales ranging from funny to touching, from thought provoking to outrageous, and heart-warming to heart-wrenching. They share one common trait: each examines relationships from a unique, sometimes quirky, angle. Some are laugh-out-loud hilarious, some twist and turn and then end up just the way you thought they would. Others deliver an "I didn't see THAT coming!" conclusion. Nothing is exempt from scrutiny. Some highlights: In A Very Special Bird, a young child obtains a coveted pet parakeet in a daring ethically-challenged maneuver-then must face his mother, eye-to-eye. In Twins, two unrelated strangers meet in an airport and discover they have identical birthdays. One is an unemployed newlywed, the other is a radiantly beautiful actress. They have nothing in common but time to kill before their flight. What starts out as an innocent hookup gets serious with the speed of a jetliner taking off. In Blue Belle, we meet a hardworking rural man of limited means, who can't resist a bargain on a used luxury car. Soon, it becomes more than just transportation...but cars don't last forever... The protagonist of No Good Deed finds a large, injured seabird on a Florida roadway, and makes choices that he immediately regrets, and can't undo. He quickly plunges into a one-sided relationship he must ride out until the end, for good or bad. Three on a Match tells the story of a middle-aged man, with a predictable marriage and a life-sapping everyday existence, who forms an unlikely alliance with two homeless men, who sleep in a tent, hunt, fish, drink beer and fire automatic weapons for kicks. An evening of beer and camaraderie produces some life-changing decisions. This is a quick, easy read which will leave you smiling, thinking, and hungry for more. Gino Bardi is the author of three-time award-winning The Cow in the Doorway and he claims that all of this actually happened, but no one believes him!

• | Author: Gino B. Bardi
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 114 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1546596518
• | ISBN-13: 9781546596516