My Recent Publication

"TC Tjprmfurep
This marvelous story has just become available on Amazon. It is NOT self-published!!!! but by a real live publisher!!

Ladies!! This is not a war story but the beginning is the open stage where the characters are collected for the story.
Seldom has a great love been so flawed and the prize so great. TC, now a research scientists in the University of Philadelphia is trying to create a multi-energy machine that will change the world. However, the Philadelphia papers laughingly refer to this as TC's "Holy Grail." To make I worse, the most vicious and mean-spirited villain of all time pursues TC both to destroy him and his machine as  well as destroy the love he has won. The last pages are filled with police cars with red flashing lights, helicopters buzzing overhead, and explosions enough to be from the battle of Chosen Reservoir. The chase scene equals that of in "The French Connection."

he literary prose art the beginning has been labeled by famous writers as 'beautiful and chilling.' ""

The epilogue written by TC Thornfyr's son has been read and said by many to be the most beautiful literary prose ever written..

If you will go to Amazon you will  find this novel and the thoughts about it by the publishers and author.
Wayne Sands, MD

The Problem with Bob the Tiger

 

By Seven Year Old Spencer Reid of Tucson, AZ

 

There once was a tiger named Bob.  His favorite food was rabbit but when he ate rabbit, the rabbit ears kept getting stuck in his teeth.  He looked really silly with those big rabbit ears hanging out of his mouth.  When he went to school, the other tigers laughed at him.  So, Bob dropped out of school.  All of the other tigers were asking their teacher where Bob was.  Their teacher said, “Bob has dropped out of school.”  Bob decided to live somewhere else, where tigers wouldn’t laugh at him. He lived on top of a cliff all by himself.  One day, he heard a strange noise that sounded like tigers!  He ran to the edge of the cliff.  He saw saber tooth tigers. They were trying to steal all of the food.  He ran down the cliff to where the saber tooth tigers were.  He was scared.  He still had the rabbit ears hanging out of his mouth.  So he looked kind of like a saber tooth tiger.  In fact, he looked like and sounded like the king of the saber tooth tigers.  They started to bow down to him.  He stopped and paused for a second.  He told the saber tooth tigers to never harm anyone.  They thought that he sounded like the king.  They let him go.  He decided to go visit his old school.  The other tigers wanted him to come back to school, so they asked him what would make him come back.  He said he didn’t want the rabbit ears to get stuck in his teeth.  They gave him an idea.  They told him to cut off the ears before he ate them!  This worked and nobody ever teased him again.

 

The End

 

*****

 

With Spencer’s and his mother’s approval I have also used these “Bob” stories in my great novel “The Giorgioni Legend.”  In thinking about the “Bob” stories as a psychiatrist, it appears to me that Spencer in the flesh is a lonely child looking for someone to be his friend.  It is easy to see that such an intelligent youngster might have some difficulty relating to other children his age.  I strongly recommend the “Bob” stories for those persons of any age…be it three years or ninety three.

 

 

The Adventures of Bob the Mexican Jumping Bean

 

By Seven Year Old Spencer Reid of Tucson, Arizona

 

Once upon a time, there was a desert so dry that no one wanted to live there.  It was so dry that not a drop of water fell and no one was able to live there except for one.  His name was Bob.  He was a Mexican Jumping Bean.  He was so lonely.  He wanted to find a friend but no matter where he looked, he could not find one!  He wanted to give up but then one day a very strong wind blew him thousands of miles away and he landed in a pond full of fish.  He didn’t know where he was and wanted to go home.  He needed to find someone who could help him.  He started walking and came across a town.  The town was full of bright colored buildings and big office buildings.  As he walked, he ran into another Mexican Jumping Bean.  He asked this bean to help him find his way home.  The bean told him “No.”  Bob has to find a way home and someone else to help him.  He asked everyone in this town but no one was willing to help him. They ALL said “No!”  So, Bob kept walking.  Bob came to another town.  This town was old and the buildings were moldy.  Bob soon found out that the town was deserted.  Bob had to walk miles and miles until he found another town.  The third town had lots of streams running through it and it was full of life.  Bob thought this town was very peaceful.  It had lots of big flowers.  The people were very nice here and Bob found a new friend.  He was another Mexican Jumping Bean and his name was Cheese.  Bob asked Cheese if he could see a map.  Cheese got Bob a map and they looked at it together. The map said the desert where Bob lives is 1,307 miles away.  Bob now had to make a decision.  He had to decide whether to go back to the desert or to stay here with people and his friend Cheese.  He finally decided that he would rather be with friends than be alone in the desert.  Cheese showed Bob around his new home.  They walked all over town and passed the Capitol building.  There was a sign on the building that read: “Mayor seat is open!”  Bob told Cheese that he was going to run for Mayor.  He did and he won!   

Moral:  sometimes all you need is a friend. 

 

The End

 

*****

My New book

My New Book:


"Title: "The Heart is a Hound Dog Baying For love"


This 200 page book is an epilogue to my 430 page book "The Giorgioni Legend."  Gwen L. Hunte, the daughter of a wealthy aeronautical company has been in love with Captain Clyde Amos Giorgioni since she was a child. Captain Clyde, a carrier pilot, is sent home on temporary leave after missing a landing on the carrier Enterprise. Prepared to die, Clyde is miraculously saved the next morning by the crew of the submarine Cuttlefish. He returns to Dallas on temporary leave and to run the US Marine recruiting office until  called back to duty. While downtown at noon mass by newly frocked father McNaire, Clyde and Gwen sit in the same pew. At lunch she tells Clyde that she is a graduate of Bryn Mar and that her goal in life to have five children...she a single child. Clyde the athletic and pal type of man is nonetheless drawn into he web of love.
The dating, proposal and marriage are worth a book of it's own.
1. In 1943 there are twins: Caraline (little mommy) and her twin William Scott, a boy genius.
2. Then follows Ellie, a sweet and darling child, (a loveable peacemaker).
3. The fourth child is a boy with his maternal grandfather's name which is the name taken from his rough and ready maternal grandfather...Jerome Lee Hunee)    The last is a boy named after his father...Clyde Amos Giorgioni Jr.


The setting is WW22 and the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan.
Clyde is recalled for duty to serve as a carrier pilot in the battle of Okinawa Island...a terrible and sage battle. (Both ladies and gentlemen will learn lots of history in this epilogue as well as thrills and  chills for Clyde now back at war and  now with a family and two children. and Gwen pregnant with the third cut little Ellie.
After peace is declared in August 2 on the battleship Missouri, Clyde and his buddy Jeb Beaumonte begin an air travel line called the Patriot Line.
It is worth the whole book to travel with the Patriot crew to:
1. Kyoto, Japan
2. Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
3. The But chart Gardens in Vancouver, British Columbia
4. The lovely Arizona city of Sedona and its environs.
r. The star trip is a trip up the east side of the Grand Canyon (one of the seven wonders of the world.-  The reader will discover the geography of the Grand Canyon to more than match the scanty knowledge of  some so-called experts.


The best is yet to come !  President Harry S. Truman asks Clyde and Jeb to go to the North Korea on a special mission/ The Patriot  crews performs expertly and is honored in Congress and by President Truman for their courage and valor in saving hundreds of lives.


No one whatsoever will want to miss the surprise ending which is a double-header and includes the Oval Office and the flight home on the President's airplane the Sacred Cow.


The final and ending paragraphs a surprisingly and touching.


If you fail to read this 200 or less page book you will regret it immensely!!!


Wayne Sands, MD (Author of : "The Giorgioni Legend," "TC Thronfyre," "Bid More Winning Slams" and 'Literary Potpourri." (a book of short stories, poems, and literary prose."

Questions for those who wish to learn.

First Question:


Which of these two statements is correct?


John, after feeding the dog, went to the  grocery store for his mother.


John went to the grocery store for his mother after feeding the dog.


Question Two:


She said to Bob, "I sincerely thought that you said "I am not going to the movie."


She said to Bob, "I sincerely thought that you said 'I am not going to the move.'"


Question Three:


Jane said, "I was going to the movie but changed my mind."


Jane said, "I was going to the movie, but changed my mind."


Question Four:


The passengers of the Patriot line went to the lovely flower gardens on the island of Cypress which is to kilometer in length/


The passengers of the Patriot line went to lovely island of Cypress which is 10  kilometer and length and saw the lovely flowers there.
Wayne Sands, MD

I am presently working on a book with numerous short storied for all ages. One of my most loved are to very short stories by seven year old Spencer Reid of Tuscon AZ. I call these "Bob" stories as the main character's name is "Bob." Bob is always looking for a friend be it a saber toothed tiger or a Mexican jumping ben. Spencer is now a strapping now a tall and teenager no longer writes stories. My heart pains see such talent lay fallow in the untilled soil of teenland. is Another short story is entitled "The Death of a Warrior." This tale has an element of truth as the main character was actually my friend who fought in WW2.

How to Protect your manuscript.


From experience I have had several near disasters, one of which was that my computer turned off for some reason that is not yet known. The second disaster was that a well-trained computer secretary lost a whole  story of more than  400 pages. Despite brining in experts, this document had fled my computer never to be seen again.


However, to  this point, I still have an accurate copy of all I have written. If you want to know how I did this read on.
Things to do to preserve your manuscript:
1. I am mad about these small "flash" discs.  To me, they represent the safety net used by circus high rope walkers. After working on every manuscript, I and my secretary go through a routine to put the newly worked manuscript on a flash disc.


 What is more I keep only the last manuscript worked. Being legally blind, this action prevents me from working on the wrong document.
Another help for preserving your work is to see that an important copy is kept in another computer in your home such as that of your wife, or etc. Now, when you have finished your manuscript, put a finished copy on a flash disc and put it in your bank vault. Be sure the envelope it is in is well labeled for quick identification. To be really fussy, print out the manuscript, and put this hard copy in your bank vault..  If you don't have a bank vault, put a flash disc in a well-marked envelope and give it to someone you trust. Be sure it has the copyright declaration on your manuscript.


To be sure I am working on the last corrected manuscript, I, when completing the work the previous day (or time) put the date at the very top of the manuscript such as 3-31-14.  Believe me, it doesn't matter whether you are working on one or ten manuscript, you must follow some pattern such as that above to preserve your hard-to-duplicate literary work.


A tip on correcting a line of your manuscript:


Again, folks, I am legally blind so I often need to do special things to correct lines. Below is an example of "my way."


"The little yellow dog jumped over the sleeping fox."


Lets say that I want to change the word 'jumped' to ''hurdled'. In order to not mess up the line, I make a line break before the word "jump" and then put in the word "hurdled.," then , removing "jumped from the last part of the line, I  hit the break key and put the line back  together, now the line containing the word "hurdled" instead of "jumped." This explanation only complicated because I haven't thought of  a more simple way to put it. All that I can say is "this works wonders for me."

The heart is a Hounddog baying for love

3-25-14
Coming Soon


The title of this less than 100 page book is: "The Heart is a Hound Dog Baying for Love"
The subtitle is: Gwen Lee Hunt  loves war hero, Clyde Giorgioni.
This work is an epilogue to "The Giorgioni Legend." and is less than 100 pages in length.
For those who have not read the main book, Clyde is the son of Mike and Anita Giorgioni who has just returned from the WW2 famous Battle of the Midway Atoll. where he spent the night in the bowl of his parachute after a botched landing on the  carrier Enterprise.


(I plan to eventually put "The Giorgioni Legend" on Amazon for downloading on your Kindle,


Clyde, after rescue by the submarine Cuttlefish, is awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart  and returns for a temporary leave to Dallas, TX where he is put in charge of the US Marine recruiting service in downtown Dallas. After a noontime sermon by a newly frocked priest of the downtown Catholic Church, Clyde and Gwen meet. It is at this point that a memorable and tender love affair begins between Clyde and Gwen, she almost exacting the promise that she, raised as an only  child, would tolerate a family of at least five children.


Their marriage is a glamorous and spectacular affair as Gwen's father is CEO of the St. Louis Aeronautical Company.
Wayne Sands, MD  waynesands12@aol.com
Alas and alas and alas. After three children Clyde is recalled to duty to again be a fighter pilot in the most savage and deadly battle of all time....the Battle of Okinawa. The author has studied many battles but that of Okinawa .  As I always mix in history with the story, the reader will fine that learning history is quite painless if a part of a story.


I would like very much  to tell you of the bang-up ending as well as some very tender family happening but that would deny you the fun a privilege of discovering happenings in this book which have passed me and others by.


Oh yes, my secretary says that Gwen had Clyde in her sights when she was only a young child. Of course that is something to consider as you read this tale of adventure, romance and action.

The Giorgioni Legends

Just look what is coming your way!!!


Very soon my novel "The Giorgioni Legend" will be available to you/ The "Legend"" is a large novel with large scenes and dynamic characters. The genre is that of adventure, action, romance and history. Now, now folks,, this is certainly not a history book but no story covering 90 years in Texas can be created without involving the milieu of history about the action. For example: Did you know that trains pushed the cattle drives to Dodge into the past?  Did you know that the 1901 oil gusher in Beaumont, Texas double the supply of oil for the USA. as the output of the Standard Oil Company was watched barrel for barrel by oil and natural gas discovered in Texas in 1901. Nope, folks you cannot ignore these seminal moments of history.


The story begins in 1852 when Paulus Octavious Giorgiona and his wife Corinthia Dorina cross the Atlantic Ocean and then go west on the Erie Canal and then to Chicago, IL via the he steamship Loretta  . From there it's west across Illinois to the Great Mississippi River often called the "Big Muddy." The two Sicilians end up at New Orleans, Louisiana where they take a ship east across the Gulf of Mexico then to the Bay of Galveston after which they go 250 miles northeast to San Antonio where Paulus becomes famous in this Catholic diocese for his art in wood working.


The second generation is that of the twins Carlos and Carla. While Carlos moves to Houston to become rich in the furniture business, his twin sister Carla disappears into the island of Galveston her life history there quite nebulous.


Siegfried Giorgioni, becomes rich by building A General Store and Oil Drilling Annex in the exact geographical center of Texas. While Zephyr is the name on the map, the author has taken the liberty of naming it "Tempest." Siegfried buys a 3000 acre ranch under which there is a lake of oil plus other money-making areas such as cotton and a Texas size area of pecans.


Michael Fernando Giorgioni is of the fourth generation and a superb writer who wins the highly regard Pulitzer Prize for a book about his family. Also, Mike serves in the Great War in France. The reader will slather at the mind as Mike vacations in Paris after trench war against the Germans. Nowhere, I promise you, will you find such  tender and entrancing scenes as that found in the final battle of the Great War at Belleau Woods, France. 


After Mike returns home in honor, he and Anita Marie Austin make a tour of the State of Texas to gain the right for women to vote.


After many years of of delay, Mike now 33 years of age joins the Creative Writing class at Southern Methodist University.  This chapter has all the pain and delight which writers endure as writer workshop attendees. Meanwhile, in the second year of their marriage, is born Clyde Amos Giorgioni  ,and outstanding athlete and with a mind of Mensa capabilities. As Clyde is born in May of 1922, he is cannon fodder for WW11 when he serves as a carrier pilot on the Yorktown in the memorable and remarkable sea battles of the Coral Sea and that of the Midway Atoll.


What? No villain? Oh yes, yes, yes. Erik Beezlethor is the supreme villain. Not only is he an uneducated genius but a bigot with a grand purpose. He is chief of the NRG (Night Riders of God) .
Erik aka "Erik the Red" is an unusual and remarkable villain in that he exploits the Constitutions First Amendment of free speech by conducting bigotry marches against Jews, Negroes, Chines, Japanese , women and Catholics, his signs maligning all but Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS). Erik is so interesting a villain that one must read the book to understand the clear and present danger of a villain who employs the First Amendment so that he hangs the citizens of Texas with their own noose.


The ending chapters are most extraordinary to such a degree that I have read then time and time again just for the fun of it.


If you are a Texan, you will thievery or mayhem for the singular opportunity of  reading this book. Even if you hate Texas (which very few do) they will find that th story is so delightful that they will  forthwith make plans to visit Texas.
Although I would enjoy making a pot full of money from the sale of this magnificent novel, I am quite satisfied that I have been allowed four years of life to do the research and writing of this book. Of course, the hours of research have been monumental through which I have become an expert on many subjects about which I knew very little. This in itself is payment enough for the author.
Look for my other books on Amazon. They too are worth your time. Also, I a have almost complete an epilogue off less than 80 pages of "The Giorgioni Legend." I shall leave a blog when this is finished.
W. Wayne Sands, MD and, a retired Radiologist and Psychiatrist.

"TC Thornfrye" on Amazon

On Amazon you will find my fascinating novel "TC Thornfyre" which you can now load down into your Kindle.  I am obtaining a new and striking jacket for this novel. So, my dear friends, you can at this moment read a fascinating story of romance, action and science. Quite some time ago, Propaganda Films declared this book to be one of creative writing and a marvelous villain. Personally I am enchanted with the love affair between TC and Myko Nimura   Below are some tidbits of this enchanting and gripping story.

W. Wayne Sands, MD

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Cell: 602-571-3622

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The purpose of this Blog is to announce  that Amazon will now display the colorful jacket of my new novel:

 

“TC Thornfyre”

“A love so flawed, the prize so desirable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First of all, this is NOT a novel of war. The escape of Dr. TC from  the Chosin Reservoir is to introduce characters

 

chacters that will reappear further in the story.  So,  and gentlemen, this is a tale of the genre  of adventure, romance, action and science.

 

 

It is most  likely that many do not recall the heroism of the Marines in the North Korean War.  When Chief of the Army, General Douglas MacArthur did not take the warning from China seriously enough so that he might retreat and save his army.  The US Marines charged up north to the Chosin Reservoir, which was a very short distance from the Yalu River which marked the southern boundary of China.  In the winter of 1951, the Chinese Army swept south to send the US Marines to a remarkable retreat either down a curling road, past the famous Fox Hill to the west Pacific 70 miles southwest. The worst retreat was from the Chosin Reservoir where men fled over the ice, and south to Hagur-ri,  itself under siege. This retreat was the greatest  and most horrendous since that of Greek general Xenophon’s flight from Persia 2000 years ago.

Here is a list of the interesting characters in this novel:

1. Margaret, Dr. TC’s secretary knows where all the bones are buried in the Philadelphia Hospital where Dr. TC  and his wife, Myko Nimura, are working day and night to built a multi-energy machine which the press calls the  “Holy Grail.”

2. Dr. Groggins is TC’s friend and a Psychiatrist as well.

3.  Barabas is a Canadian volunteer who has long red hair and is an expert with the Browning Automatic rifle.

3. The villain, Kushi Seppku, is a Japanese sniper working for the North Koreans.  Barabas captures Seppku and, through a angry incident is woundedby Dr. TC.  Propaganda Films, reviewing this book, said, that the writing was “creative” and the villain “marvelous.”

4.  Unfortunately, TC’s Wife, Myko Nimura, is a niece to Kushi Seppku, the latter a villain.

5.  The  Holly Grail is not  only for industrial use but hoped by TC and Myko to win the Nobel Prize and go to Stockholm Sweden to receive it.

6. There are three interesting physicians: Drs Thomas and Quayle and an African American who sets TC on the track to become a doctor.

 

The chase scene at the finish is equal to that of the famous movie, “The French Connection.” Helicopters hover about, police cars race to the Christmas Store in southern Stockholm, sirens screeming.

 

My colleagues and my creative writing teachers have state that: “The most  epilogue is the most [petoc and beautiful prose they have ever encountered.

 

As an author, I had all of my novels with a poem and this squib below is in  my choice for this month. If also may be found in my book “TC Thornfyre” which you can soon download in your Kindle.

 

It is my habit as an author to place a significant poem or short paragraph of lyrical prose immediately before the story begins. Below is the paragraph of lyrical prose that precedes the story of “TC Thornfyre.” My colleagues have said that this prose-poem is both beautiful and chilling.

 

 

The Epic Of  THE RETREAT FROM CHOIN RESERVOIR

By Wayne Sands

 

Thousands were already marked for death before they arrived in this valley tombWith the womb-wide lake bound to the umbilical   cord     Of a skinny road       Whose fragile tracery led north to death Away from the southern safety at Hagaru‑ri,ne hundred long miles behind them.        They came isearch of The Holy Grail That, the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared,      Lay at the Yalu River Near the soft underbelly of China      Where the Manchurian wind Swept down like a sharpened sickle,      Reaping them into grotesque frozen

Icy sculptures of death they Caught in the full stride of escape mouths sucking the North Korean cold

Into the farthest venules  of their bodies.

 

“Ladies, please remember  that “Dr. TC Thornfyre” Is NOt, NOT, NOT a novel of the Koren war but rather love story of two talented persons.”

“

“Men, let my assure you that you will find this novel will arouse in you some personal  rembrances of a flawed love as well as the harsh realities encountered in researching a multi-energy machine which many think is both ludicrouse and a waste of the college’s time and money. (We’ve all been there, in one way or another, haven’t we?”

 

So, readers, as you are on the web now, go to Amazon and download “Dr. TC. Thornfyre” by Zipp Morgan for a great read which you will always remember.”

 

 

The Epic of the Chosen Reservoir Battle of the Korean War

 

 

By Wayne Sands

 

Thousands were already marked for death before they arrived in this valley tomb

With the womb-wide lake bound to the umbilical   cord     Of a skinny road       Whose fragile tracery led north to death Away from the southern safety at Hagaru‑ri,ne hundred long miles behind them.        They came isearch of The Holy Grail That, the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared,      Lay at the Yalu River Near the soft underbelly of China      Where the Manchurian wind

Swept down like a sharpened sickle,      Reaping them into grotesque frozen sculptures

Of death, they Caught in the full stride of escapeWith mouths sucking the North Korean cold

Into the farthest venules of their bodies.