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    "Holy Crap!": Religion, in a small town, and other tales of The Great American Westerly Midwest
    "Holy Crap!": Religion, in a small town, and other tales of The Great American Westerly Midwest
    "Holy Crap!": Religion, in a small town, and other tales of The Great American Westerly Midwest
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    "Holy Crap!": Religion, in a small town, and other tales of The Great American Westerly Midwest

    By Mike Palecek

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    Again we join the adventures of Tommy, Nona The Waitress and Robert S. Thompson in The Great American Westerly Midwest. This time we follow Tommy around town as he and his friend, Johnny, try to solve the great mysteries of religion; whether God exists, and if so, where is He? In the park? In the drug store? The cafe? Nona doesn't believe in God, she says, and Robert is just glad to be alive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Palecek
    Release dateJun 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301963263
    "Holy Crap!": Religion, in a small town, and other tales of The Great American Westerly Midwest
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    Mike Palecek

    Mike Palecek is a writer who lives in Saginaw, Minnesota, west of Duluth. He is a former federal prisoner for peace, was the Iowa Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, 5th District in the 2000 election, is a former award winning reporter, editor, publisher in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota. The small newspaper Mike & Ruth Palecek owned and operated in Byron, Minnesota won the MNA Newspaper of the Year Award in 1993. Mike and Ruth have two children and recently moved from Iowa to Minnesota. The Paleceks both work for group homes in the Cloquet area. Mike has written several other books. He is the co-host of The New American Dream Radio Show, along with Chuck Gregory, which has been broadcasting each Thursday at 6:30 pm. since February 2011. Here is a link to some past books: http://newamericandream.info/ Link to radio show. I am co-host: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-new-american-dream-radio-show Link to radio interviews I have done, concerning my books [left-hand side of page] : http://newamericandream.net/ Link to columns I wrote, published in Cold Type, while on book tour: http://coldtype.net/find.html [scroll down to "Mike Palecek, The American Dream Book Tour" Some other links, reviews, etc: http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2010/02/guests-of-nation-chapters-16-21.html http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/bigfoot-loves-balloons-a-review-of-mike-paleceks-camp-america/ http://johnnymoon.newamericandream.info/kevin-barrett-on-johnny-moon/ http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-terror-nation-by-mike/ http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/books-speak-english-by-mike-palecek.html http://madhattersreview.com/issue6/book_reviews.shtml#palecek http://dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/MickeyZ27.htm http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2007/3/13/195217/176 http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/bigfoot.html http://prairieprogressive.com/2006/05/12/book-review-terror-nation-2006/

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      "Holy Crap!" - Mike Palecek

      HOLY CRAP!

      … Religion, in a small town, and other tales

      of The Great American Westerly Midwest

      by Mike Palecek

      Copyright 2013 Mike Palecek

      Original artwork copyright Monty Borror

      Smashwords Edition

      [Tommy Michael Moskowitz, a kid]

      Well, I was over on my bike the other day by the church.

      It was freezing cold, but I ride my bike all year.

      If you go fast you can fly over all the front steps.

      Johnny and me were resting, sitting on our bikes.

      He says to me, That’s God’s house.

      It’s church, I said.

      He’s in there, he said. My gramma goes there to talk to God.

      My eyes must have been huge ‘cause Johnny said, No, really!

      He said, Go in there and see. See God.

      I shook my head.

      I dare you. Go! Johnny said.

      So I said, You can’t, ‘cause I didn’t want to. It’s huge and there’s statues that don’t move or talk and there’s a little thing with

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