Roland J Aviles Writes

The Old Man and Me - or - Dextera domini/dei So I had been reading The Best of Joe Haldeman, a group of short stories by of course Joe Haldeman (duh!). One of the stories that got a lot of attention in this collection, winning the Hugo and Nebula, is  “The Hemingway Hoax”. I really enjoyed it, though if I am going to go into admitting anything I so, so, SO struggle with short-story collections. I don’t know why, though I would lean towards a lacking in attention span (which wouldn’t really make sense since it’s a group of short stories!). So, back to The Hemingway Hoax…..It’s a little time-travel, a little classic manly lion hunting literature, at once reminding of Slaughterhouse Five and a bit of Heinlein’s Job: A Comedy of Justice. After reading it though, I got to thinking, what have I ever read of Hemingway? Hmmm. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. So we, the Mrs. and I, end up at the library - shocking I know, and on a whim - since we were actually in line to checking